This National Family Caregiving Month — celebrated every November — Washington advocates are pointing to the new WA Cares Fund as one solution for supporting family caregivers, who they say will ...

Washington has a caregiving problem. And I don’t mean the 63 million Americans in crisis providing unpaid care to aging relatives. I mean, Washington’s chronic inability to do anything about it.

Washington has a caregiving problem. And I don’t mean the 63 million Americans in crisis providing unpaid care to aging relatives. I mean, Washington’s chronic inability to do anything about it.

(The Center Square) – A new study has revealed a record number of Americans are serving as unpaid caregivers for elderly relatives, and Washington residents bear that burden more than any other state ...

Multiple caregiving bills sit in committee purgatory, languishing for years. The RAISE Family Caregivers Act was passed in 2018, establishing a national strategy to support family caregivers, but it ...

SEATTLE — Grandparents and older relatives are often stepping in as primary caregivers when biological parents are unable to provide care for their children. In fact, about 40,000 grandparents are ...

While the number of providers taking advantage of the new billing opportunities is slowly growing, overall participation in ...

WASHINGTON STATE — Family caregivers across the state provide an estimated $25 billion worth of unpaid care each year, according to a new report from AARP. The report, called "Valuing the Invaluable," ...

As first reported in The Imprint, the change allows “kinship caregivers” to receive resources that were initially not available to them. The updates made by the state of Washington come after federal ...

Roughly half of the more than 1.3 million family caregivers in Washington have been set back financially due to their responsibilities. That’s one of the sobering findings in a new survey of ...