Caregiver Resources

A public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families.

A federal government website managed and paid for by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Resources for caregivers who take care of an aging, seriously ill, or disabled family member or friend. Learn more about being a caregiver and locate resources.

Support, Education, and Advocacy to individuals caring for people with all types of dementia in the Portland-Vancouver area.

Happy Healthy Caregiver is a support community created by Elizabeth Miller for for family caregivers who feel isolated and overwhelmed by all their responsibilities and want help integrating caregiving (and self-care!) with their life.

Caregiver Action Network (CAN) is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for the more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease, or the frailties of old age.

The Association for Death Education and Counseling, The Thanatology Association, is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement.

Managed by six daughters who have experienced the loss of a loved one with dementia, AlzAuthors serves the goal of making a difference to your dementia journey.

Play the new party game that lets you explore a topic we’re all obsessed with but often afraid to discuss. End of Life professionals around the world use The Death Deck to have important and entertaining discussions about death.

Zen Community of Oregon's dharma talks are a fantastic mindfulness resource, accessible to people all around the world. Recorded live at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon, and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, Oregon.

Graphic Medicine is a site that explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. We are a community of academics, health carers, authors, artists, and fans of comics and medicine.

No matter what stage you are in your caregiver journey, the community of caregivers at The Caregiver Space is a place to ask questions, share experiences, get real answers, or just get things off your chest.

Reimagine is a nonprofit organization that draws on the arts, design, medicine, and spirituality to transform taboo cultural attitudes around death and grief, and to address the inequities surrounding how we live and die.

Death cafés allow individuals to gather, in person and virtually, to address their fear of mortality, discuss ethics and increase awareness. With no agendas, only unstructured conversation, their objective is to increase awareness of death in a supportive way while helping people make the most of their lives.