Caregiver Support Services

According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, there are 65.7 million caregivers – 29% of the U.S. adult population – who are caring for someone who is ill, disabled or aged. The role as caregiver may include household chores, shopping, providing transportation, personal care, and giving medications. Caregivers’ lives at work and at home can be disrupted. With multiple roles and multiple responsibilities, many caregivers often neglect themselves. Those who care for others may experience caregiver stress, often characterized by depression, exhaustion, irritability, social withdrawal, and sleeplessness.

ACC Senior Services provides many services that can assist people with their caregiving needs:

• Bridge to Healthy Families provides care assessment and management for family caregivers that can help identify needs and be connected to support services and resources.
• Friendly Visitor/In-Home Respite Program provides frail seniors with enrichment activities and care assistance while allowing caregivers that much needed “break” from their duties.
• PEARLS (Program to Encourage Active Rewarding Lives) can help provide tools and resources on how to help manage unpleasant feelings and improve quality of life. 
• ACC Rides Transportation Service can help get loved ones to and from ACC Senior Services Center or to necessary appointments.
• Meals on Wheels by ACC can insure that home-bound care recipients receive a nutritious meal.
• ACC Senior Resource Guide provides up-to-date information on the programs and benefits in four different languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean)

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.
— Rosalyn Carter