Supporting Family Caregivers
June 2007
Care Renewal: The policy implications of 13 caregiver respite projects
Identifies common themes emerging from 13 caregiver respite projects and makes policy recommendations to address the gaps they revealed.
June 26, 2011
Effecting Policy Change: Lessons from the Canadian Caregiver Coalition
This story describes CCC’s effort to find a structure and mindset that allowed it to develop a more targeted approach to advocacy. Second, it presents details from the coalition’s work to build a caregiving policy agenda. Third, it reviews the impact of sharing or ‘scaling out’ its knowledge and lessons about organizational change and advocacy to the Ontario Caregiver Coalition.
October, 2011
Recognizing the Recognition
Sometimes governments do the right thing. This commentary highlights several measures recently introduced by selected provinces to help recognize the additional health- and disability-related costs that informal caregivers may incur. Unlike the current federal tax provisions, the provincial measures are designed to provide modest financial assistance to lower-income households. In English only.