Please join us in congratulating Senior Associate State Director for Advocacy Tammy Bresnahan upon receiving the 2024 Care Champion Award from the Caring Across Maryland Coalition. This prestigious award recognizes Bresnahan’s decades of tireless advocacy for long-term care reform in Maryland.
A new study at Johns Hopkins Medicine aims to determine whether providing companionship and personalized activities in a virtual setting can help improve the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Your survey responses will be used by the Maryland Commission on Caregiving to inform policymakers and community organizations to help provide better support for family caregivers.
Marylanders who provide care for veterans spend on average $11,500 of their personal income on out-of-pocket costs related to caregiving each year—1.5 times higher than what other family caregivers spend ($7,242), according to AARP data. And 43 percent of veteran and military caregivers experienced at least one financial setback such as having to take on more debt or dip into personal savings, according to research from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving.