US: HHS Releases Progress Report on Federal Implementation of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers (Press release)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – September 17, 2024
Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Administration for Community Living (ACL), delivered to Congress a progress report on federal implementation of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. The strategy presents a vision, establishes goals, and provides recommendations for ensuring that family caregivers have the support and resources they need. The strategy also includes commitments from 15 federal agencies to nearly 350 actions to implement these recommendations. Today, nearly all these actions have been completed or are in progress, and federal agencies have committed to almost 40 new actions since the strategy’s release. Each year, more than 53 million Americans provide a broad range of assistance to support the health, quality of life, and independence of an older adult or person with a disability. In addition, millions of grandparents – and an unknown number of other kinship caregivers – open their arms and homes each year to children who cannot remain with their parents. The number of family caregivers continues to increase as the populations of disabled people and older adults grow and as the opioid crisis and other issues create thousands of new “grandfamilies” each year.
Also: Progress Report: Federal Implementation of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers: https://bit.ly/3B30z7m