The Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act was signed by President Trump on 1/24/18. The Act, a bipartisan effort supported by AARP, requires the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create an advisory council charged with making recommendations toward development of a national strategy for ways government, communities, healthcare providers, and employers to support family caregivers.
The Goals of this National Family Caregiving Strategy include:
- Promoting greater adoption of person-centered care and family-centered care in health settings and long-term care settings
- Training for family caregivers
- Respite options for family caregivers
- Ways to increase financial security for family caregivers
- Workplace policies to help family caregivers keep working
- Collecting and sharing of information about innovative family caregiving models
- Assessing federal programs around family caregiving
- Addressing disparities and meeting the needs of the diverse caregiving population
For more information about the passage of the legislation and for the text of the Act see www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3759
