Helping you help your family

Why we’re here

The responsibility of being a family caregiver can hit fast. One day you’re working, traveling, or just living life, and the next you’re trying to understand medications, insurance decisions, hospital updates, estate planning, and how to keep your loved one safe at home. The Caregiver Field Guide exists to provide caregiver resources for adult children caring for aging parents, as well as those stepping in to help other family members, with clear, practical guidance. Whether you’re navigating your first hard day or your hundredth, CFG is designed to make the load a little lighter for those looking for support like I was.

CFG’s origin

Caregiver resources for family caregivers start with real experience, and this is where mine began; on the afternoon of June 26, 2024, I got “the call.” Dad told me I needed to come home. Mom wasn’t well. Eight hours later, I found myself back home, in the same hospital where I was born.

Unbeknownst to me, Mom had been diagnosed with cancer the day before. It had metastasized aggressively and the prognosis was not good. Mom & Dad needed help, and as the only child, there wasn’t anyone else to help them navigate this awfulness.

So, I started as Mom’s primary caregiver June 27th. That meant a jarring shift from normal life to managing chemo’s side effects, translating diagnoses & Rx instructions, navigating insurance, and the 24/7, relentless decision making required to provide any and everything Mom and Dad needed. All this while pushing through my own emotional whiplash of hope, dread, and an unknown future.

Throughout all this, I was Googling and GPTing dozens of times a day, attempting to educate myself on…well, whatever was thrown at us that day. I had zero experience with any of this.

I was frustrated at the lack of practical, caregiving hacks & informational guides for family caregivers like me; people untrained for the roles we’ve been thrust into. After one particularly fruitless night of searching, I decided if a one-stop-shop caregiver resource for adult children of elderly parents didn’t exist, I was going to create one. This urge to provide the information I wish I had on June 27th led to The Caregiver Field Guide, a resource focused solely on assisting people like us.

Fast forward to the present day and we’ve since lost Mom. My focus has turned to a father dealing with grief, uncertainty, and researching a whole different set of medications. I’m still learning everyday, Googling topics like estate planning, assisted living, and long-term care insurance. Again I’m finding that info is spread across the web like so many prescription bottles. But I will pass along any knowledge gained while I’m at it.

What The Caregiver Field Guide Offers

The Caregiver Field Guide is built for family caregivers who need reliable, real-world help. This is a growing resource, and several areas below are actively expanding as new guides, tools, and reviews are added. You’ll find:

• Practical resources for adult children caring for aging parents
• Straightforward how-to guides for new and experienced caregivers
• Support with topics like safety, mobility tools, dementia basics, and in-home care
• Easy-to-understand breakdowns of long-term care insurance, Medicare, estate planning, and assisted living options
• Checklists, walkthroughs, and step-by-step instructions for common caregiving challenges
• Research-backed explanations and real-world product reviews to help you choose tools worth trusting, along with curated product recommendations that focus on safety, independence, and quality of life

All content is grounded in lived experience, research, and the day-to-day reality of caring for someone you love.

My hope

Regardless if you’re just now being placed in a similar situation as I was, or if you’re a seasoned family caregiver looking for support, I hope The Caregiver Field Guide will be a trusted resource for you, and your family.

bB | Founder