National Family Caregivers Association

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The National Family Caregivers Association educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships and life stages to help transform family caregivers' lives by removing barriers to health and well being.

Here's the link to the NFCA's site: National Family Caregivers Association

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Summer Newsletter link --> National Family Caregivers Association: Take Care! Self-Care for the Family Caregiver.™ VOL. 18 | NO. 2 | SUMMER 2009

TAKE CARE! - Self Care for the Family Caregiver is NFCA's quarterly newsletter written to provide members of NFCA with information, insight, support, and knowledge. TAKE CARE! is written from the perspective of the family caregiver. It draws on the experience, and the innate understanding that can only come from "walking in the shoes of a family caregiver."

Many of the articles are based on research and information drawn from academia, healthcare, and the social sciences.

The TAKE CARE! Newsletter contains "How to…" articles and guides which provides practical information and caregiving advice. A "question and answer" column and important resource information appears in each issue.

To receive TAKE CARE! In the mail sign up here. To read past issues of TAKE CARE! click here.