The Family Caregiver Support Program is in its third year of operation and offers family members who are giving care to an infirm loved one over 60 and people over 60 who are raising a related child age 18 or younger assistance, education, support and the opportunity to get an occasional break from care-giving responsibilities.

In the United States, family members provide 80% of the long term care given. Demands of care giving may be physically, emotionally and financially exhausting. Many family members don't identify with the term "caregiver," but view themselves as "just a spouse, a daughter, a son or a friend."

A person of any age who is primarily responsible, on an unpaid basis, for coordinating, overseeing or giving care for someone close is considered in our program to be a "family caregiver."

For more about the Family Caregiver Support Program please contact:

Cathie Lindler
Family Caregiver Advocate
(803) 649-7981

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