Taking care of an aging parent can be emotionally charged, financially burdensome and physically exhausting. The new reality is that family members play a major role in the long-term care of their elderly loved ones. According to the MetLife Mature Market Institute, 25 percent of adult children over 50 now provide personal and/or financial support to one or more parents. With those statistics, you know you’re not alone.
The National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP), established in 2000, provides grants to States and Territories, based on their share of the population aged 70 and over, to fund a range of supports that assist family and informal caregivers to care for their loved ones at home for as long as possible.
The NFCSP offers a range of services to support family caregivers. Under this program, States shall provide five types of services:
• Information to caregivers about available services,
• Assistance to caregivers in gaining access to the services,
• Individual counseling, organization of support groups, and caregiver training,
• Respite care, and
• Supplemental services, on a limited basis
More than 1 in 10 family caregivers report that caregiving has caused their own physical health to deteriorate, so it’s important to recognize these warning signs and call ‘time out’ before you burnout. Support services have helped caregivers stay healthy longer by reducing caregiver depression, anxiety and stress by offering advice, understanding and valuable legal and financial resource information, all of which allows caregivers to be able to provide at home care longer.
Through the NFCSP program, the NC Division of Aging Adults Services administers North Carolina’s Family Caregiver Support Program through services provided by 17 area-focused Agencies on Aging. For the services offered in your particular area, visit http://www.ncdhhs.gov/aging/aaa.htm.
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