Top 6 Resources:
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Short videos about caregiver issues.
WISER partner organizations who provide caregivers with support, services, and information.
Who Are You Caring For?
Specific information for individuals caring for a spouse
Get started here with this initial information needed as you start caregiving:
- Guidance on planning for caregiving expenses and creating a household budget as a caregiver.
- Checklist of documents that spouses will need to manage finances, healthcare decisions, and personal property for their spouse.
Leaving Your Job or Working Part-Time
- Understand and plan for the financial and retirement costs of changes to your employment.
- Paid family and medical leave options.
- Calculating how much you and your spouse will need to live on once retired.
- While not always an easy issue to think about, planning well in advance for end-of-life care can help protect a care recipient’s well-being and also provide peace of mind for everyone involved.
Elder Financial Fraud and Abuse
- Information and resources for caregivers to learn how to recognize, prevent, and report elder financial fraud and abuse.
Major Federal and State Benefit Programs
Specific information for individuals caring for a parent
Get started here with this initial information needed as you start caregiving:
- Guidance on planning for caregiving expenses and creating a household budget as a caregiver.
- Learn about the documents you may need to manage healthcare, finances, and more on behalf of your parent.
Leaving Your Job or Working Part-Time
- Understand and plan for the financial and retirement costs of changes to your employment.
- Paid family and medical leave options.
- Calculating how much you will need to live on once retired.
- While not always an easy issue to think about, planning well in advance for end-of-life care can help protect a care recipient’s well-being and also provide peace of mind for everyone involved.
Elder Financial Fraud and Abuse
- Information and resources for caregivers to learn how to recognize, prevent, and report elder financial fraud and abuse.
Major Federal and State Benefit Programs
Specific information for individuals caring for a child or grandchild
Get started here with this initial information needed as you start caregiving:
- Guidance on planning for caregiving expenses and creating a household budget as a caregiver.
Estate Planning for a Child with Lifelong Caregiving Needs
- Additional planning steps to take if your child will have lifelong caregiving needs.
Leaving Your Job or Working Part-Time
- Understand and plan for the financial and retirement costs of changes to your employment.
- Paid family and medical leave options.
Major Federal and State Benefit Programs
Specific information for individuals caring for a friend
Get started here with this initial information needed as you start caregiving:
- Guidance on planning for caregiving expenses and creating a household budget as a caregiver.
- Learn about the documents you may need to manage healthcare, finances, and more on behalf of your friend.
Leaving Your Job or Working Part-Time
- Understand and plan for the financial and retirement costs of changes to your employment.
- Calculating how much you will need to live on once retired.
- While not always an easy issue to think about, planning well in advance for end-of-life care can help protect a care recipient’s well-being and also provide peace of mind for everyone involved.
Elder Financial Fraud and Abuse
- Information and resources for caregivers to learn how to recognize, prevent, and report elder financial fraud and abuse.
Major Federal and State Benefit Programs
Caregiving Blog
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Caregivers often face unpleasant surprises later in life. Many people retire without considering the challenges that they – and those who help them – may face 20 years later. In the first 20 years of retirement, many retirees lose family members, suffer physical or mental decline, or face other life changes.
Late Life Issues are Vital to Caregivers
Caregivers often face unpleasant surprises later in life. Many people retire without considering the challenges that they – and those who help them – may face 20 years later. In the first 20 years of retirement, many retirees lose family members, suffer physical or mental decline, or face other life changes.
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This project was supported, in part by grant number 90PCPN0001-01-00, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201.