Insights from Jason Resendez | August 2025
America’s 63 million family caregivers are facing unprecedented pressure as the demand for care surges and support systems fall short. New data from Caregiving in the US 2025 reveals a sharp rise in high-intensity caregiving, financial strain, and emotional isolation. With caregivers managing complex medical tasks and sacrificing their own well-being, the need for bold, coordinated policy action has never been more urgent.
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Jason Resendez is the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, where he leads research, policy, and innovation initiatives to build health, wealth, and equity for America’s 53 million family caregivers. Jason is a nationally recognized expert on...NAC_Cancer-CG-Collab_Proceedings
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Newsletter Signup Subscribe to Our Newsletter First Name*Last Name*Email* Which newsletter(s) would you like to receive?* International Caring - This e-newsletter was started in 2019 as a way for NAC to engage with our members, partners and advocates on news and...Our 2023 Impact
Our 2023 Impact Our Impact This Year From groundbreaking federal initiatives to a heightened public understanding of caregiving as a social issue, 2023 marked a significant year for The National Alliance for Caregiving. Learn more about our 2023 impact. Download...Karen
Karen has the mindset that you do what you can to help family, so she began to do the shopping and other small tasks for her mother in 2010. In addition, Karen has a background in finance, so she helped her mother, aunt, and uncle with their finances. By 2016, Mimi...
Martha
Martha is the care partner to her wife, who was diagnosed in late 2016 with stage 4 metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. At the initial diagnosis, the resources provided to Martha by the medical team as a care partner were minimal. Martha, who is a licensed clinical social...
Autumn
Autumn was 32 when her mother was diagnosed with a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As the only child of a single mother, Autumn knew she would be her mother’s caregiver one day, but neither she nor her mother expected that day to be when her mother was only...
Jeannette
Jeannette’s husband returned from Iraq with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, signs and symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and advanced bone and disc degeneration. His symptoms got worse over time, but Jeannette knew things were...
Jim
Jim and his wife care for their veteran daughter since she was in a car accident while stationed in Italy as an Army Captain. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for almost a year. Their daughter now needs 24/7 care. She has a feeding tube, has...
Leslie
Now in their 80s, Les and his wife have been together since they were 16 years old. In 2014, his wife began having cognitive impairments and, through several tests, it was determined that she had Alzheimer’s disease. Her diagnosis was caught early. Over time, as her...
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2009 Report Caregiving in the US 2009 The purpose of this study is to present a portrait of family caregivers today, and to compare it to a portrait of caregivers in the past. A national profile of caregivers first emerged from the 1997 Caregiving in the US study. A...