Education / Training

Services to help you learn more about caregiving; community resources for future planning; understanding and coping with stress; and skills that will help you perform new care tasks.

Caregiver Consultant

One-to-one support and advice to keep your life in balance while caring for a partner or older adult; Understanding your caregiver role; Managing stresses of giving care; staying healthy; problem solving; and help communicating with family and others involved in the care.

Support Groups

Group opportunities to meet and gain support from others caring for an ill partner or parent; learn about managing care and finding community resources.

Respite Care and Adult Day Services

Services for your partner or relative while giving you some time for yourself. This includes in-home, out-of-home and adult day services.

Technology for Every Day Living

Equipment and devices for supporting the independence and safety of older adults. Including home modifications, emergency response systems, durable medical equipment and assistive devices.

Consumer Directed Care

Services which increase an older adult's choices in selecting care providers. It includes options for paying a friend or neighbor to provide the care.

Home Health Care

Care provided in the home by nurses, home health aides, physicians, and rehabilitation specialists to restore or promote functional abilities

Hospice and End of Life Care

Information, support and services to help you care for someone who is in the advanced stages of a disease or dying

Services in the Home

Supports and services to help older persons and adults with disabilities stay in their homes. Including chore, homemaker, home delivered meals, transportation and companion services.

Financial and Legal Advice

Find resources to help with legal or financial issues you may have in your role as a caregiver.

Housing / 24 hour Supervision

Local housing options for the person for whom you're caring.

Medical / Behavioral Health Services

Services to help you with ongoing worry or anxiety, depression, and concerns related to use of alcohol or prescripton drugs.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an education program to help family and friends who are caring for an older adult with long-term health conditions. Find A Class in your community.

Work and Caregiving: Finding Balance

A brochure for working caregivers to help achieve work-life balance (also available in Spanish).

Senior Link

Use the Senior Link section of MinnesotaHelp.info to find services for seniors in your local area.

Minnesota Board on Aging - Family Caregivers

This page features information about caregiving for seniors and links to caregiver support services throughout Minnesota.

Family Caregiver Alliance

A non-profit national coalition of 40 organizations that focuses on caregiving issues research, policy analysis, national programs and public awareness to support the contributions of caregivers.

AARP Caregiving Website

This Web site for family caregivers includes tip sheets, articles, interactive features, links to social networking features such as support groups and discussion boards, and many other resources.

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