Legacy Leadership Institute for Older Adults: Caregiving

Family Caregiver Alliance provides resources for caregivers and those who are in need of care. Users can search by state to locate a wealth of local information. The site also provides resources in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and more .A great source for all caregiving needs!!

Extensive guides and resources from AARP. Membership to AARP is not required to locate valuable information on various caregiving issues. Users can locate resources by state and has guides in multiple languages.

CaringBridge allows you to create a personal website to share your health updates. An easy way to communicate to your friends and family members. You personalize your site, choose your privacy settings, and can begin to post updates, videos, photos and other information about your personal health journey. CaringBridge partners with GoFundMe, Meal Train and Shipt to make coordination easier.

Provides the Caregiver's Bill of Rights that reaffirms your right to take care of yourself as you take care of others.

Feeding the Gulf Coast, a Feeding America affiliated food bank, works with member organizations and other programs to feed the hungry in South Alabama, South Mississippi and the Panhandle of Florida. Offers distribution of food boxes to eligible seniors each month (CFSP).

Provides resources of free food in the Mobile, AL area. By no means comprehensive, but a good supplement to the food banks mentioned in other sites.

Lists food pantries in Mobile, AL.

Eligible seniors can receive a $50 benefit card to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, herbs, and honey from certified farmers markets around the state. Applications can be made online.