Find Your CaregivingStage
When you worry about, support, help or care for a family member or friend, you have your own experience. Your experience also moves through six stages. This tool helps you identify where you are, understand what's ahead, and find the coping strategies that fit the moment.
A map for a journey no one prepares you for
When you expect a child, the community rallies around you — with gifts, well-wishes, and encouragement. But when you become a family caregiver, you may find yourself feeling isolated, uncertain, and alone.
The Six Caregiving Stages™ was created by Denise M. Brown to give family caregivers the same gift expecting parents receive: a map. A way to understand where you are, what's coming, and how to steady yourself when things get hard.
"Without support, you might find yourself fighting self-doubts. That's why I've developed the Six Caregiving Stages — to provide a map for your journey, just like books for expecting parents. Because no journey is completed without wrong turns, unexpected delays, and unplanned crises, we include steadies for your stumbles."— Denise M. Brown, Founder, The Caregiving Years Training Academy
Where are you in your caregiving journey?
Answer four reflective questions to identify your stage — then explore all six.
The Caregiving Guide
The companion to your caregiving journey. The Caregiving Guide walks alongside you through every stage — with comfort, practical tools, and the reassurance that what you're experiencing is real, valid, and shared by caregivers everywhere.
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