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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2555
igaa057.2555
Abstracts
Session 6270 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Federal Advisory Councils Established to Assist Working Caregiving Families
Gibson Ethlyn McQueen  
Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”722 722
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
This presentation will describe the legislative charge of two advisory councils established in 2018 through the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage Family Caregivers Act and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act to support working family caregivers. The advisory councils are charged with 1) providing recommendations on effective models of family caregiving 2) improving coordination across federal government programs; and 3) identifying, coordinating, and promoting information, resources, and 4) best practices for working grandparents raising grandchildren, while maintaining their own physical, mental, and emotional well-being. The experiences of working family caregivers will be the foundation for these recommendations that are being developed over the next two years to present to Congress. These recommendations will support the development and execution of a national family caregiving strategy.