Who is the Family Caregiver?
Many families and individuals are caregivers to a loved-one who is afflicted with an illness, injury - or most commonly - an elder. These caregivers can be the daughters, sons, parents, spouse, siblings, other relatives, or even a friend of the person in need of assistance. They frequently make great personal sacrifices to provide care for their loved ones, sometimes to the detriment of their own health and wellbeing. Often, the family caregivers are the ones relied upon to provide care when they are at home. In fact, according to the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA), the service provided by family caregivers represents 80% of all home care services. Due to the humility of many of these dedicated individuals, the everyday sacrifices of family caregivers are sometimes unrecognized and under-appreciated.
Click here to read more about the history of the National Family Caregiver of the Year award, and read about the 2009 award recipient.
How will the winners be recognized?
Homewatch CareGivers, the largest, most experienced international provider of full-service in-home care, is honored to recognize the care, compassion, and sacrifice of these family caregivers at both the local and national level.
Each local winner will receive a scholarship to Homewatch CareGivers University, our professionally developed online caregiver training platform, to help them develop new skills to better care for their loved one.
Local winners will be entered to win the grand prize of $5,000, and title of National Family Caregiver of the Year.
Anyone can nominate a caregiver. Nominees for the “Family Caregiver of the Year”
program will be accepted beginning June 07, 2010 through July 26, 2010.
If you would like to nominate someone, please click HERE.
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