Caregivers
If you are a caregiver, you may be grieving someone who is still here: the person they were before illness, injury, or dementia changed them. This is a slow, ambiguous grief, often unacknowledged because the loss hasn't fully happened yet. You are holding both love and anticipatory sorrow, often alone, while also managing the endless practical demands of care. Your grief is real, and it deserves recognition and support of its own.
National Resource
Family Caregiver Alliance: The first nonprofit to address caregivers' needs nationwide, offering support, education, research, and policy advocacy for family caregivers.
Recommended Reading
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss: The classic guide to grieving someone who is physically present but psychologically changed by dementia, chronic illness, or addiction, and the unresolved grief caregivers so often carry alone.
Grief & Support
Caregiver Action Network: A national family caregiver organization offering a peer-to-peer support network and practical resources for the long, slow loss that caregiving so often brings.
Currently in crisis?
If your grief has become a crisis, you feel unsafe, or you are thinking about harming yourself, immediate support is available.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week anywhere in the United States, free, confidential, and ready for anyone experiencing emotional distress or grief.
If this is a life-threatening emergency, call 911 immediately.