LIVONIA, Mich. - September 08, 2026 - All Home Care Matters, a senior care media and advocacy platform, today announced the publication of Caregiving in America: Understanding, Navigating, and Transforming the Most Important Responsibility Millions of Families Never Expected, a 766-page reference book by the company's founder, Lance A. Slatton. The release coincides with World Alzheimer's Month, observed each September.
The book arrives as new data underscores the scale of family caregiving nationally. According to the "Caregiving in the U.S. 2025" report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, nearly one in four American adults — 63 million people — now provide ongoing care for a family member with a complex medical condition or disability, an increase of nearly 20 million over the past decade. More than 40 percent of caregivers report providing high-intensity care, and seven in ten do so while employed.
(Caregiving in America: Understanding, Navigating, and Transforming the Most Important Responsibility Millions of Families Never Expected by Lance A. Slatton)
Addressing a Documented Information Gap
Researchers who study family caregiving have noted that many people carrying out caregiving duties — a spouse managing a partner's medications, an adult child coordinating a parent's appointments — do not initially identify themselves as "caregivers." That gap in self-recognition, advocacy groups say, often delays families from seeking information or support until a medical or financial crisis forces the issue.
Caregiving in America is structured as a reference intended for repeated use rather than a single reading. It covers healthcare coordination, Medicare and Medicaid navigation, Veterans benefits, long-term care insurance, legal planning, dementia-related care, home care options, long-distance caregiving, caregiver burnout, and grief and care transitions. The book also includes state-by-state resource listings, worksheets, checklists and self-assessments.
"Nobody handed my family a roadmap," said Slatton, whose family cared for his father for nearly three years through seven major surgeries. "We learned as we went, through appointments, setbacks and difficult decisions. This book is meant to give other families a reference we didn't have."
A Broader Policy Conversation
Family caregiving has drawn increasing attention from lawmakers and health policy researchers in recent years, as the aging U.S. population shifts more long-term care from institutional settings into private homes. AARP has estimated the annual economic value of unpaid family caregiving at approximately $600 billion nationally, underscoring its role as a largely uncompensated extension of the formal healthcare system.
"Family caregivers are often the people holding everything together behind the scenes," Slatton said. "They're coordinating care, managing medications and navigating insurance, often while still working full-time and raising their own families."
(Lance A. Slatton, author of Caregiving in America, Founder and Host of All Home Care Matters, and President and Owner of AlzAuthors)
Availability
Caregiving in America is available now in paperback, hardcover and digital formats through major booksellers.
- Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4566-8420-4
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4566-8421-1
About All Home Care Matters
All Home Care Matters is a senior care media and advocacy platform founded in 2020 by Lance A. Slatton, following his family's experience caregiving for his father. The company produces educational content on family caregiving, dementia, home care and long-term care and is based in Livonia, Michigan.
About Lance A. Slatton
Lance A. Slatton is the founder of All Home Care Matters and co-founder of Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, Michigan. He also serves as president of AlzAuthors, a community connecting families with books addressing Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and is the author of The All Home Care Matters Official Family Caregivers' Guide and Caregiving in America.
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