The
American Association for Caregiver Education
Our Mission
 To
listen to caregivers, understand their needs, and
provide solutions.
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To proactively engage
family caregivers at all levels to hear
their stories.
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To apply research,
education, wisdom, and lessons learned to
better understand core, emerging and future
family caregiver concerns
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To design, develop,
and deploy innovative, sustainable family
caregiver teaching and training solutions
for professionals, students, and providers.
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To create a focused
resource hub for non-clinical family
caregivers to better understand the spectrum
of demands in long-term care.
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To add to the body of
non-clinical family caregiving knowledge
through ongoing research.
The American Association for Caregiver Education (AACE)
was founded in 1998 by a group of social service and
healthcare professionals knowledgeable in all aspects of
the family caregiver experience. They recognized that
family caregiving could occur at any time and in any
combination of people, regardless of age, gender,
relationship, or illness. They also understood that
family caregiving was 15% clinical and 85% practical
problem solving.
In a short time, AACE founders realized that
non-clinical family caregiver education has not been the
focus or an expertise inside of any medical, nursing, or
social work curriculum. In response to this critical
need, AACE assembled a more diverse team of family
caregiver experts whose formal training including elder
and disability issues, special needs, family law,
software technology, longevity and chronic need
financial planning, and educational development. This
team works together to research, evaluate, and
collaborate on new thinking for the “invisible” family
caregiver striving to succeed in a world of clinical
care.
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