November is National Family Caregivers Month. It’s also National Pomegranate Month and International Drum Month to name a few things. I really want to bring attention to National Family Caregivers Month, so I wrote and sent two e-mails today to Christian radio programs.  I contacted both Focus on the Family and Family Life Today. I also plan to contact my local NPR station, TV stations, and newspapers. By contacting them, now, I’m hoping to give them enough time to plan for coverage, or at least a mention.

Below you will find my letter, which was short, sweet, and to the point. Feel free to modify it to suit your situation and send it out.  The more of us trying to bring attention to Family Caregivers, the better!

You may not be aware, but November is National Family Caregivers Month. It is also the national month for many other things such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Diabetes, COPD, Pancreatic Cancer, Lung Cancer, Crohn’s Disease, and Ulcerative Colitis. While it would be challenging to give attention to each of these diseases, a wonderful way you could cover everyone would be to have a show on family caregivers.

Family caregivers are the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, moms, dads, spouses, grandparents, and others caring for a family member who has a medical condition that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to get through life without help from someone else. I was my father’s caregiver for the last two years of his life, and just a few months after he passed away, became my now 57-year-old husband’s caregiver. Together my husband and I raise our teen-aged son and manage the challenges that come with the uncertain future of a Mild Cognitive Impairment (possible Alzheimer’s precursor) diagnosis.

I hope you will find the time in your busy program schedule to have one show dedicated to family caregivers. It would mean so much to all of us to receive that type of public recognition. I have included the link for the website, caregiving.com where you can read my story (G-J’s blog) and the story of many other family caregivers who care for parents, children, spouses, and siblings.

If I can be of any assistance to you, please contact me. For more information on family caregivers, please contact Denise M. Brown, author, caregiving coach, and founder of caregiving com, at denise@caregiving.com.

Thank you for your time!

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