Redwood Caregiver Resource Center

Great educational opportunity from one of our sister agencies:

Friendly reminder

Self-care is difficult when we feel overwhelmed and without margin. Sheltering in placeespecially while caregivingcan add to the challenge. Here are some simple meditations that don’t take much time and don’t cost any money. They might help ease some pressure.

Remember, as my mother reminds me every time we get off the phone, ‘Doing your very best is all you can do.’ And that has to be good enough.

The new California Caregiver Resource Centers website has great information and resources for family caregivers and features our very own Lauren’s blog,Little Spark of Madness, about caring for her mother with dementia. Check it out!

Health care professionals, the authors write, must recognize and work with these essential, but unpaid and informal health care workers. ‘The pandemic, itself, has laid bare the fact that caregivers are often care-adjacent....’

Great insight from our colleagues at Family Caregiver Alliance/Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center.

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Please join us in this Town Hall Meeting. RCRC’s Director will share how supporting family caregivers reduces the risk of elder and dependent adult abuse.

USC professor developed a successful, culturally tailored SMS program to improve Alzheimer’s literacy among African Americans.

Redwood Caregiver Resource Center values diversity. Whatever your race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, language, abilities, sexual orientation, or gender, you are welcome here.

Stories from caregivers who have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ACTION ALERT: Friends and Advocates! TODAY is the day to make calls!! The Governor’s May Budget Revise has been released and we are asking for your help to make calls to the following legislative representatives on behalf of Redwood Caregiver Resource Center and the California Caregiver Resource Centers(CRCs). We ask that you reach out to these offices before the end of the day, Monday May 18th, in order to impact the scheduled hearings. Please call each of the legislative re...presentatives as they are participating in a hearing on Tuesday morning, which will include reversing the augmentation the CRCs received in the 2019 budget (65% budget cut for Redwood CRC). Talking points for calls, letters and emails: 1. Stop the Governor's budget proposal to reverse the CRC Augmentation. 2. NOW is not the time to cut services to family caregivers who are more burdened and isolated than ever trying to keep family members with cognitive impairments and other physical and mental disabilities safe at home, out of hospitals and nursing homes 3. Seniors and other adults with disabilities are those hardest hit by COVID-19. We should be strengthening systems to support family members during this crisis, not cutting services. 4. Family caregivers need additional respite to help replace care provided by community programs that have been shuttered by COVID-19. 5. The Caregiver Resource Centers were able to immediately shift from in-person to remote service delivery at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis because of the 2019 augmentation. It is crucial that the CRCs continue to provide COVID-19 responsive essential services. Please know, if you have not made calls like this before, it is an easy process. You’ll need to state your name and talking points, even if you end up in voicemail. Each call is logged based on topic and reported to the representative. Sub 1 Health and Human Services Dr. Joaquin Arambula (Chair) (916) 319-2031 Jim Frazier (916) 319-2011 Devon J. Mathis (916) 319-2026 Jim Patterson (916) 319-2023 James C. Ramos (916) 319-2040 Blanca E. Rubio (916) 319-2048 Jim Wood (916) 319-2002 Philip Y. Ting (916) 319-2019 Jay Obernolte (916) 319-2033 Thank you!!!!!

The National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) and AARP has just published recent research and information on Caregiving in the U.S. 2020! To learn more about caregiving, please visit here: https://www.caregiving.org/caregiving-in-the-us-2020/

RCRC staff member and family caregiver, Lauren, shares her experience caring for her mother with dementia. In her honesty, she helps us all feel less alone in our challenges and need for self care. Thank you, Lauren!