The need to provide caregiving can arise due to a partner’s injury or disease, or because of parents’ aging. Below, you can find a number of resources that hopefully will be helpful to you in your journey, for whomever you provide care. For all caregivers, however, it is vitally important to take care of yourself. Without taking care of yourself, it will be difficult if not eventually impossible due to fatigue, exhaustion, and caregiver burnout to take care of your loved one. Therefore, one of the links below takes you to the ‘Caregiver Bill of Rights’!
- Caregiving after Brain Injury (Ontario Brain Injury Association)
- BrainStreams– BC Caregiver groups
- Caring for someone who is ill– Government of Canada site that provides information about financial and other benefits for caregivers
- Family Caregiver Support Groups (BC, Canada)
- Benefits Finder and more– Government of Canada site
- Caring for Seniors – included on this page are Government of Canada and BC sites
- Caregiver Bill of Rights
- Stories for Caregivers with Jann Arden -stories about challenges caring for a spouse
