What we do
Two kinds of help, in this order: a guide to benefits, then a way to find other caregivers in a similar situation.
1. Benefits navigation
The first job is to help an unpaid caregiver see which public programs may matter, based on real life: the state you live in, your relationship to the person you care for, whether you are working, how far away you live, and a few facts about the person who is ill.
Today that help comes in two parts. The federal benefits guide explains four programs in plain language and links to the official page for each. A benefits finder, which asks about your situation and shows which of two dozen programs are worth looking into, is built but not yet open.
Neither one says that you qualify. The finder matches your answers against written program rules and shows you, for every result, what it could not check. The rules are a fixed table, not something the software makes up: nothing on this site invents a criterion or infers one from your answers.
The finder has not yet been reviewed by an elder law attorney or a benefits counselor. That review has to happen before the finder opens, because wrong information about Medicaid or veterans' benefits can cost a family years of coverage.
State programs are not on this site yet. Florida is the first state planned after the federal guide. Adding a state should be new information, not a new kind of website.
2. Community
The second job is to connect caregivers who share a circumstance: the same state, a similar relationship, a similar stage of the disease, and whether caregiving is combined with paid work.
That community is not open. There is no account to create here, and there is no place to post. When it exists, people will use real names on accounts so the space can be moderated by staff or trained volunteers. Caregivers are often targeted by financial scams, so unmoderated requests for money will not be allowed.
What this site will not do
- Show advertisements.
- Sell personal information.
- Collect your name, health information, or finances on these pages.
- Invent eligibility rules or replace the official agency, a counselor, or an attorney.
- Ask you for a donation. Donation tools are not part of this site.
The project is for caregivers in the United States. Benefit systems in other countries are a much later question.