National Family Caregivers Month 2025
Each November, National Family Caregivers Month recognizes and honors family and friend caregivers. JAHF joins the Caregiver Action Network, the Administration for Community Living, our grantees and other partners in the month-long campaign to raise awareness of caregiving issues, educate communities, show recent progress and increase support for the more than 63 million caregivers across the country.
Family Caregivers Month
The Caregiver Action Network (CAN) leads the
observance of National Family Caregivers Month and has selected the 2025 theme, Plug-in to Care, to focus on connection—helping caregivers easily “plug in” to vital support tools, trusted networks, and educational resources that can make the caregiving journey less overwhelming and more supported.
Upcoming Family Caregiving Events
- November 3, 7, 10, 14, 19: CAN will host the Plug-in to Care Webinar Series.
- November 5: The American Society on Aging will hold a webinar on Caring for the Caregiver: Resources to Support Well-Being with CE credit available.
- November 5-6: The National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) will hold the 2025 Caregiver Nation Summit in Washington, D.C., and virtually.
- November 6: Join AARP for a free online Movies for Grownups screening of the 2025 documentary Caregiving, produced by Bradley Cooper.
- November 11: The National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) will hold part one of its 2025 Autumn Summit in Boston, MA.
- November 18: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will hold a webinar on The Power of Caregivers for a Healthy America.
- November 19: UCLA's Alzheimer's & Dementia Care program will host a Better Caregiving for All webinar on the topic "Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia and Addictions."
- December 2: Part two of NDCC's 2025 Autumn Summit will take place virtually.
- December 2: Benjamin Rose will hold its Annual Caregiving Conference 2025 - From Story to Strategy: Empowering Caregivers, Shaping Policy in Cleveland, OH.
Caregiving in the US 2025
Earlier this year, NAC and AARP released the latest report from Caregiving in the US (CGUS), the nation’s leading ongoing data project on family caregiving. First conducted in 1997, CGUS provides a regular pulse check on the economic and healthcare realities of America’s growing community of family caregivers. This year’s report is the most comprehensive look yet at the realities facing family caregivers across the country:
- Download the Caregiving in the US 2025 report.
- Visit the CGUS 2025 Data Hub, which brings to life the data, trends and insights from the report.
- Visit Caregiving in the US 2025: Caring Across States, NAC's state-level analysis of data from the report.
Advocacy and Implementation Resources for the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
Implementation of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers continues through the work of national, state and nonprofit advocacy partners.
- The Caregiver Nation Coalition (formerly Act on RAISE), led by NAC in solidarity with the aging, disability rights and patient advocacy communities, is bringing together stakeholders across the caregiving continuum to strengthen the National Strategy.
- NAC's new Federal Funding Tracker enables advocates to track and understand federal funding allocations for critical programs that support family caregivers.
- SupportCaregiving.org, from NASHP, offers resources that employers, funders, managed care plans and states can use to implement the National Strategy.
- Grantmakers in Aging created an Action Guide For Philanthropy for SupportCaregiving.org and as part of its Family Caregiving Funders Community.
JAHF Grantee Resources
Supporting family caregivers is one of JAHF's three priority areas, and its grantees produce resources to better serve caregivers nationwide. Use and share the following resources in November and throughout the year:
Policy resources
- State Strategies to Support Working Caregivers, a brief from NASHP.
- Strengthening the Respite Care Workforce, another NASHP brief.
- Caregivers Communications and Marketing Toolkit, a resource from NASHP to help states, local agencies and nonprofits better reach family caregivers.
- Public Health’s Roles in Supporting Informal and Family Caregiving, an Age-Friendly Public Health Systems policy brief from Trust for America's Health.
- Role and Expectations of Family Caregivers in Hospital at Home in the US and Canada, a research letter in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
- State Efforts to Integrate Family Caregivers and Direct Care Workers, a report from ADvancing States.
- Three policy briefs released by NAC this year address Medicaid cuts, Medicare policy and Medicaid work requirements as they relate to family caregivers.
- Trends in Innovation: Implementing and Refining Caregiving Training Services in Medicare, an additional brief from NAC's Cancer Caregiving Collaborative.
- State Approaches to Family Caregiver Education, Training, and Counseling in Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services, a state tracker from NASHP.
- Direct Care Workers in the United States: Key Facts 2025, a report from PHI.
For clinicians and other professionals
- Resource Guide for Health Care Teams, a fact sheet from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and NASHP offering tools to help providers include family caregivers in care.
- Not Just Visitors: Integrating Family Caregivers in Care Delivery and Design, a paper from NAC and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care.
- Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregivers for Individuals with Serious Illness or Disability, a workshop proceedings report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
- Supporting Family Caregiving - How Employers Can Lead, a Milken Institute report.
- Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy, a Harvard Business Review article co-authored by JAHF's Terry Fulmer.
- Modules and training from the Diverse Elders Coalition help health care and social service organizations better meet the needs of diverse caregivers (scroll down this page for the toolkit and What Providers Should Know factsheet series).
- RUSH Center for Excellence in Aging Caring for Caregivers (C4C) model, developed to incorporate family caregivers into the age-friendly care of older adults.
- Foundational Skills for Engaging Caregivers in Health Care course for health care teams from Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams (CAP-CT) at UCSF.
- Educating nurse practitioners on dementia care management in diverse health systems is part of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program’s partnership with national organizations like EDC.
- Best Programs for Caregiving for Program Providers, an online resource for health care and social service organizations to select proven dementia caregiving programs for their patients and clients.
- Caregiver Support Initiative from the Center to Advance Palliative Care, with guidance and learning opportunities to help health care organizations provide meaningful support to family caregivers.
For family caregivers
- Planning and Decision Making in Alzheimer’s Care: What Families Should Know, a National Council on Aging blog by JAHF's Rani E. Snyder and FAIR Health's Nicole Iny.
- Caregiving, a new PBS documentary produced by Bradley Cooper that examines caregiving from multiple perspectives.
- Preparing for Surgery: A Guide for Older Adults and Their Caregivers, a WebMD article produced in partnership with JAHF as part of a series on Age-Friendly Care.
- Time to Talk, an episode from New Hampshire PBS featuring JAHF's Rani E. Snyder discussing how families can navigate important conversations about aging and future care.
- My Health Checklist, a guide from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement designed to help older adults and their caregivers get the most out of their medical appointments.
- Best Programs for Caregiving for Family Caregivers, an online resource for family caregivers to find proven dementia caregiving programs.
- Better Caregiving For All, a monthly webinar series from UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) Program.
- FAIR Health offers actionable tools with healthcare cost information for older adults and family caregivers.
- Caregiver resources from the Family Caregiver Alliance.
- The New Face of Caregiving from the American Society on Aging's Generations Today.
Visit CAN's National Family Caregivers Month page.
Read about the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
Learn more about JAHF's support of Family Caregiving.
