💛 How Secondary Caregivers Offer Support, Stability (AARP Article)

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💛 How Secondary Caregivers Offer Support, Stability (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE.

How Family Caregivers Strengthen Each Other and Create Stability.

Discover how secondary caregivers can provide essential support, skills and steadiness to primary caregivers.

By Paul Wynn, AARP. Published December 11, 2025.

Maybe you’re helping a parent care for their spouse living with a chronic disease or supporting a sibling who’s caring for one or both of your parents. Either way, you’re part of the growing, but often overlooked, group of secondary family caregivers.

Christy and Megan Callahan have spent the past two years rallying around their father, Bob, as he cares for their mother, Colleen, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2019 and moved into a memory care community last year. Although their parents had typically followed traditional roles at home, Bob stepped fully into caregiving by taking over the cooking, shopping, cleaning, medication management and daily tasks until his wife’s steep decline in mid-2024 left him overwhelmed.

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https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/life-balance/secondary-caregivers/