Share Your Caregiving Stories

AARP North Carolina is encouraging caregivers to share their stories to help build momentum for advocacy. Through legislation backed by AARP, the state recently joined the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact, which can help ease a shortage of health care providers. AARP also supported a power of attorney law that makes it easier for families to take care of loved ones across state lines.

This summer, AARP North Carolina named six state legislators and the governor to the bipartisan AARP Capitol Caregivers list, in appreciation of their work on such issues. AARP will call on these and other legislators in 2019 to pass a law that can ease the transition from hospital to home for patients and their caregivers.

If you are one of the 1.3 million family caregivers in the state, your story can bolster these efforts. To share it, go to aarp.org/iheartcaregivers.