Rosalyn Carter on Family Care and The Future

Soon my good friend and co-author, Gael Chiarella Alba and I will unveil our new book called “Fruits of Care: A User's Guide to Family Caregiving” to give caregivers a helpful guide during their time of need. The date of our book coming out is not yet released but I can expect early fall you will see more about it on this site (and other sites). The photo below is a page from the proof...it's been a wonderful work in progress.

It just so happens that on the back of our book, "Fruits of Care" is a terrific quote from Rosalynn Carter. Today I was delighted to see the eminent wife of Jimmy Carter speaking about caregivers with an audience of those in Iowa interviewing presidential candidates. She is a force to be reckoned with and is using her voice and position in society to advance caregiver interests. She also proposes current and new legislation and speaks to how to help caregivers in concrete ways.

She states, “As you prepare to interview and evaluate the next set of presidential candidates, I ask you to help me shine a spotlight on the more than 40 million Americans and over 300,000 Iowans who are family caregivers...You may not be one, but you most certainly know one. Caregivers are the selfless people who provide unpaid care for loved ones who are ill or have serious medical conditions." If you want to know more about this topic, see her website www.rosalynncarter.org or follow her on your favorite social media platform.

For more specific details about how the presidential candidates can be questioned about how they will respond to the needs of a future with more caregivers, see this link for First Lady Carter's Des Mois Register newspaper article