Sharethecaregiving Inc

Causes: Health, Health Care, Human Services, Patient & Family Support, Philanthropy, Voluntarism Promotion

Mission: THE MISSION ShareTheCaregiving, Inc. seeks to inform and educate healthcare providers, corporations, communities, clergy, universities, and individuals about Share The Care?, a model that details how ordinary people can create and operate a unique extended family-type support system to care for a friend or loved one, whether for a month or for years. We also provide links among caregivers and providers to evolve and continually develop our model through evidence-based evaluations and feedback from caregivers and providers. THE VISION Share The Care can revolutionize caregiving in the United States by introducing a new paradigm in which ordinary people pool their efforts to help ease the burden on family caregivers and help those without family nearby. Caregiving responsibility tends to fall upon one or two family members, often resulting in caregiver burnout, isolation of those in need of care, and high rates of institutionalization for patients lacking adequate social supports. Our Share The Care model has the potential to shift the current paradigm to a cost-effective, supportive, community-based alternative for caregiving. Share The Care works for a broad range of adult and childhood conditions, diseases and disabilities, as well as for eldercare. The paradigm shift embodied by Share The Care comes not a moment too soon, as demographic trends suggest that in the first half of the 21st century the aging of the vast baby boomer generation could overwhelm the nation?s existing system of long-term care. http://www.sharethecare.org Share The Care (How To Organize a Group To Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill) Simon & Schuster, Fireside Books, 1995, Second Edition 2004 Bookrights owned by ShareTheCaregiving, Inc.