National Alliance for Caregiving

This , we celebrate the dads, grandfathers, stepfathers, and father figures who show up every day for the people they love. For millions of them, that includes showing up as a family caregiver.

According to our Caregiving in the US 2025 report, 2 in 5 family caregivers are men. And the weight of that care is real. 15% are providing constant care. 44% are caring for someone who lives in their own household.

Behind those numbers are fathers who are navigating doctor's appointments, managing medications, coordinating care, and making quiet sacrifices that often go unrecognized. Many are part of the sandwich generation, simultaneously raising children while caring for an aging parent, carrying the needs of two generations at once. Caregiving is one of the most profound expressions of love, and so many fathers live that truth every single day.

Happy to all the caregiving dads out there. 💙

To learn more about the experiences of male caregivers and family caregivers across the country, explore our Caregiving in the US 2025 report: https://www.caregivingintheus.org/

On , we pause to honor the freedom, resilience, and enduring contributions of Black Americans, including the millions who have served as the backbone of caregiving in this country for generations.

Long before caregiving was a policy issue or a public conversation, Black families were showing up, sacrificing, and caring for those within their homes and beyond, extending that care to neighbors, elders, and communities who depended on them, often under conditions of profound inequity and without the systems of support that so many others could access. That legacy of care is deep, and it deserves to be seen.

Yet today, Black family caregivers continue to face significant disparities, in access to resources, in economic security, in recognition, and in the policies designed to help them. Honoring Juneteenth means more than marking a date. It means committing to the work of dismantling those barriers.

The National Alliance for Caregiving stands in solidarity with Black caregivers and remains committed to advocating for equitable policies and support systems that reflect the full diversity of the caregiving experience in America.

Happy Juneteenth. 🖤

To learn more about the state of caregiving in the U.S. and the diverse experiences of family caregivers, we invite you to explore our Caregiving in the US 2025 report: 🔗 https://www.caregivingintheus.org/

APPLY | How have the experiences of cancer caregivers—including care intensity, emotional toll, financial strain, and interactions with the health care providers evolved since 2015? More importantly, whose experiences remain underrepresented, and how can the next national study capture that answer with rigor and equity?

The National Alliance for Caregiving is seeking a Fellow to lead the development of the Report Planning and Analysis Framework to update our 2016 report Cancer Caregiving in the US: An Intense, Episodic, and Challenging Care Experience — one of NAC's most widely cited publications.

This role will shape the secondary analysis of the Caregiving in the U.S. 2025 dataset, with a clear mandate to embed health equity, methodological rigor, and relevance to cancer care at every stage. The Fellow will:

🔹 Co-develop an analytical framework across core domains (e.g., care intensity, healthcare system integration, economic impact) to identify trends, gaps, and research priorities in cancer caregiving.
🔹 Center caregivers from diverse communities in shaping analytic priorities, processes, and report updates.
🔹 Engage with NAC’s cancer caregiving partners to translate findings into actionable insights that advance research, policy, and practice.


Fellowship Snapshot:

📅 July 2026 – June 2027 | ~4 hrs/week
💰 $15,000 stipend
🎯 Reports to NAC Program & Research Leadership

You bring: A completed PhD (preferred) in health services research, epidemiology, or a related field + caregiving expertise + experience facilitating stakeholders or community-engaged processes.

Apply by June 20, 2026. Full details & Candidate FAQ 👉🏼 https://www.caregiving.org/careers/

"Your lived experience is expertise."

That's something National Alliance for Caregiving's President and CEO Jason Resendez shared on the latest episode of Daughterhood The Podcast, and it's a message we want every family caregiver to hear.

In this conversation, Jason talks about why caregivers' stories matter at the policy level, the critical (and often confusing) roles Medicaid and Medicare play in supporting family caregivers, and how sharing your experience, even when it feels small, can become a building block for real systems change.

More than 63 million Americans are family caregivers today, and our Caregiving in the US 2025 data shows what so many already feel: caregiving is demanding, often unsupported, and deeply undervalued by the systems meant to help. But as Jason explains, data makes us credible. Stories make us memorable. It takes both to move policy forward.

If you've ever felt like your caregiving experience goes unseen, this episode is for you.

Thank you to Rosanne Corcoran and the Daughterhood The Podcast for this vital conversation.

🎧 Listen to Why Your Story Matters with Jason Resendez: https://pod.co/daughterhood-the-podcast-for-caregivers/why-your-story-matters-with-jason-resendez

Medicare’s Caregiver Training Services (CTS) reimburse certain providers for delivering structured training and education to family caregivers when those skills are necessary for the patient’s treatment plan. These codes represent a new avenue for caregiver support and are beginning to be implemented across healthcare systems. This session will examine how these efforts are emerging and what early adopters are learning.

Featuring national insights from organizations advancing awareness and advocacy around CTS codes, along with perspectives from healthcare providers integrating the CTS codes into practice, the webinar will offer a clear look at both the policy landscape and on the ground implementation. Participants will gain practical resources and strategies to strengthen caregiver engagement and embed caregiver support within existing care models.

Join Rush University Medical Center, AARP, and the National Alliance for Caregiving for this important discussion on advancing support for family caregivers and strengthen care delivery.

📅: June 24, 1-2PM ET
🔗: https://bit.ly/3RXRfKs

Medicaid cuts do not just affect individuals. They reshape entire systems of care, and not always for the better.

Stateline recently reported on how proposed federal Medicaid cuts to home-based services could push more older adults into nursing homes, at the same time that states are grappling with the consequences of private equity ownership in long-term care. From patient safety failures to hidden ownership structures, the piece paints a sobering picture of what is at stake.

National Alliance for Caregiving's President and CEO, Jason Resendez, put it plainly: "When we take those benefits away, it doesn't take away the need for that care." Without home-based services, families face impossible choices. And as demand for nursing home beds grows, distressed facilities may become prime targets for private equity acquisition.

States like Connecticut, California, and Illinois are already stepping up with new transparency and accountability measures. But state action alone is not enough. Federal policy must protect the people and families who depend on these systems, not expose them to greater risk.

Thank you to Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline for bringing this issue the attention it deserves.

Read the full story: 🔗 https://stateline.org/2026/06/09/after-nursing-home-crises-states-target-private-equitys-role/

This ‍🌈, we're honoring the LGBTQ+ caregivers who show up every day with love, strength, and resilience, even when the systems around them fall short.

Gwendolyn has been caring for her wife, who lives with lupus and related diagnoses, for the past ten years. In that time, she has had to fight to be recognized as a care partner, chase down information about her wife's condition, and advocate tirelessly when doctors dismissed her wife's symptoms as "typical" — a painful and all-too-common experience for Black and Brown patients navigating a healthcare system that too often fails them.

Caregiving is already demanding. Doing it while pushing back against bias and invisibility is exhausting in a way that is hard to put into words. And that isolation is real. Our Caregiving in the US 2025 research found that 32% of LGBTQ+ caregivers report experiencing loneliness on their caregiving journey, compared to 23% of non-LGBTQ+ caregivers. Yet Gwendolyn keeps showing up, and she is not alone in finding meaning in it. More than half of all caregivers say caregiving gives them a sense of purpose, even amid the strain.

She hopes for a future where patient advocacy groups actively reach caregivers where they are, where research reflects the realities of Black and Brown communities, and where trust between those communities and the healthcare system is genuinely rebuilt, led by people from within those communities.

Gwendolyn's story is a reminder that caregiving is an act of love, and that every caregiver deserves to be seen, supported, and resourced in return.

This , we are committed to doing more than raising awareness. LGBTQ+ caregivers like Gwendolyn deserve real recognition, real resources, and real change. ‍

Read Gwendolyn’s care journey: 🔗 https://www.caregiving.org/care_stories/gwendolyn/

Tag a caregiver you know below ⬇️

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Rural family caregivers are the heart of their communities, and too often, they're doing it alone.

Today, the National Alliance for Caregiving and Lutheran Services in America release Rooted in Care: Transforming the Future for Rural Family Caregivers, a new report highlighting the realities facing more than 12.6 million rural caregivers across our country.

The data tell a clear story:

📊 57% of rural caregivers provide 21+ hours of care each week with one-third providing more than 40 hours.
📊 Nearly 88% report moderate to high emotional stress.
📊 More than half report high financial stress.
📊 Access to critical supports remains limited.

For rural caregivers, geographic isolation, limited access to services, and under-resourced communities mean that caregivers in rural America are carrying an even heavier load, quietly and often invisibly.

Their resilience is extraordinary. But resilience alone is not a policy solution.

Federal and state leaders must invest in caregiver supports, strengthen the direct care workforce, expand access to home and community-based services, improve rural healthcare infrastructure, and ensure caregivers are recognized as essential partners in care.

Rural caregivers are rooted in their communities. It's time our policies are rooted in supporting them.

Thank you to Lutheran Services in America and RRF Foundation for Aging for your support and partnership in this work.

Explore the full report and tell us: what would make the biggest difference for family caregivers in your community?

🔗 https://lutheranservices.org/rural-caregivers/

Confused about Medicare drug costs? You’re not alone.

Join CancerCare and special guest speakers to learn more about the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (MPPP), a program for people with Medicare that helps spread out prescription drug costs into monthly payments and how it ties to the new $2,100 Medicare drug cost cap.

Many have never heard of this program or aren’t sure how it works. We created this webinar to provide a simple explanation based on the questions we’ve heard from you.

This session is for people with cancer, family caregivers, family members, and anyone who wants to learn more. We’ll explain the basics in plain language and share where to find more information.

Register here: https://loom.ly/P5Gnlus