The Top 10 Caregiving Blogs for Caregivers

Being a Caregiver can be tough and unfortunately, life doesn’t slow down to give you time to learn how to care for someone you love. This is why caregiver blogs, which provide resources and information (often from other past or present caregivers and/or industry professionals) can be extremely helpful in navigating your caregiving journey. Below is a list of the top caregiving blogs online including Caring.com, The Caregiver Space, Transition Aging Parents, The Caregiver's Voice, CareGiving.com, EldercareABC, eCareDiary, Daily Caregiving, Caring for Parents Made Easy, and Caring Village's own resource section.

Caring.com

Caring.com is a leading online destination for those seeking information and support as they care for aging parents, spouses, and other loved ones. Their mission is to help the helpers. They equip family caregivers to make better decisions, save time and money, and feel less alone -- and less stressed -- as they face the many challenges of caregiving.

The Caregiver Space

The Caregiver Space provides a safe and open space—at no cost— where visitors can be real about what it’s like to care for someone dealing with a serious disability or illness. Use their community forums to ask questions, share experiences, get real answers, or just get things off your chest.

Transition Aging Parents

Transition Aging Parents is a blog written by Dale Carter, a respected voice for adult children of aging parents. Since facing her own mother’s health/life crisis in 2008, Dale has established herself as a voice of reason, as she has traveled around the country from the Midwest to Atlanta, through Florida and New York City. She shares her message of how to approach any change or crisis in your aging parent’s life with clarity and confidence. Since immersing herself with authors and experts in the field of gerontology, she has expanded her reach to adult children across this country. She wants to now show you how to guide your aging parent(s) so they can thrive and find joy in every stage of their life.

The Caregiver’s Voice

Founded in 1998 by Brenda Avadian, MA, TheCaregiversVoice.com serves family caregivers and professionals who work with adults with cognitive impairment or dementia caused by Alzheimer’s, stroke, related illnesses, or trauma.

CareGiving.com

Denise M. Brown launched CareGiving.com in 1996. The site features the blogs of family caregivers, weekly words of comforts, weekly self-care plans, daily chats, a Community Caregiving Journal, free webinars, and daily chats.

EldercareABC

The ‘ABC’ in EldercareABC stands for ‘About Being Connected’. So come in, get connected and have your say about what information you need. Most importantly discover a group of people that are here to support you and who you can support in your own way.

eCareDiary

eCareDiary is a web community created based on the founders experiences as caregivers for their parents who were diagnosed with chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, Type II diabetes, and dementia. Having backgrounds in the healthcare system, they found coordinating long term care to be difficult and frustrating because of the lack of good resources available online. They created eCareDiary.com as a centralized place to help families with care coordination by offering comprehensive online tools, expert content, and resources.

DailyCaring

DailyCaring is for the 43.5 million adult family caregivers who care for someone 50+ years of age. They’re perfect for family caregivers who use the Internet to find solutions for day-to-day challenges, help with important care decisions, and advice on how to plan for the future. They also cater to help professionals in the aging care industry.

Caregiving for Parents Made Easy

Caregiving for Parents Made Easy is a site designed to give you some tips and tricks for navigating the caregiver role. If you’re new to caregiving, this site provides places to turn for caregiving resources, as well as general resources for older adults.

caringvillage.com

Caring Village is a caregiving assistance platform that makes caring for an older loved one safer,easier, and less stressful. The Caring Village suite of easy-to-use mobile apps, interactive dashboard, and marketplace allows families to easily communicate, collaborate and coordinate caregiving activities for their loved ones. With insightful content and preparedness checklists, Caring Village helps provide you with all the information you need to be the best Caregiver you can be.

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