National Family Caregivers Month (November)

If you were called upon to offer care to a loved one, how would you manage? What would you need as a family caregiver to carry on? Consider these questions, as it is likely that each of us will be a caregiver one day. Writer, advocate, and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter famously declared, “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers."

In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, we encourage everyone to reflect and identify the friend or neighbor in their life who is in the role of a family caregiver. Family caregivers need you! Be open and intentional about offering support. This could mean doing a household chore, lawn care, or laundry, providing a meal, making a grocery run, or lending an empathetic ear. Most importantly,…