One out of four working adults is a caregiver providing approximately 21 hours of care per week to a family member who is either aged, blind or disabled. Projections indicate Ohio’s severely disabled older population will increase by 13% to 220,000 in the next decade and double to over 350,000 by 2035. 

This year (2011) the first wave of baby boomers will reach retirement age. The goal of our caregiver training is to impact to the family caregiver the importance or care planning and education regarding the following:

• That the older adult can participate in their choice of care that best meets their needs, whenever feasible.
• Support for family members struggling to balance their multiple Caregiving responsibilities while providing care and assistance to the older loved one at home.
• Ensure that the family has a care plan and an emergency Caregiving system.

• Ensure that the family members have hands-on Caregiving skills and techniques for providing care to the older loved one at home.
• Ensure that the family caregiver cares for him or herself first because without a well, balanced, willing and available caregiver, there is no caregiving.