If you don't take care of yourself, it's difficult to help someone else. In addition to the resources below, contact your local hospital (New Hampshire, Vermont) as well as the calendar section of your local newspaper, for care giver support groups in your area.

Government Sources

• Because We Care: A Guide for People Who Care
• National Family Caregiver Support Program
• Caregiving Medline (National Library of Medicine)

Non-Profit Caregiver Organizations

• Caregivers USA
• Care Planner
• Center for Family Caregivers
• Eldercare At Home (Foundation for Health in Aging)
• Family Caregiving Alliance
• A Good Life
• National Alliance for Caregiving
• National Family Caregivers Association
• Well Spouse Foundation

Other Caregiver Sites

• Caregiver
• CaregiverCount
• CareGuide
• Empowering Caregivers
• Caregivers: Checking Legal Issues
• Family Caregiver America
• Going Home from the Hospital-What Family Caregivers Should Know: Offers tips about discharge planning.
• Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artifical Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient with a Life Threatening Illness: Provides a resource for professionals, patients and their families regarding end of life decisions. Written by Hank Dunn, a full time chaplain at a nursing home and hospice.
• Healthy Caregiver.com
• How to Care: Your Eldercare Survival Guide
• Long Distance Caregiving
• Ten Resolutions: For people coping withchronic pain or illness, their family, caregivers and friends. Provides tips, as well as on-line support groups and e-mail list.
• Tips for Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease