Your Caregiving Benefit
Dedicated Care Experts
You and your family have unlimited access to a highly-trained Care Team to help you and your loved ones navigate whatever caregiving challenge you may be facing or that may arise.
Comprehensive Solutions
Our comprehensive approach to caregiving addresses mental health, family dynamics, financial challenges, work-life balance, home care needs and offers guidance around difficult decision-making.
Innovative Technology
Our Expert Caregiving Platform connects you and your loved ones to your Care Team. Take part in virtual care conferences, store important documents, and view and track your care plan in real-time.
Getting Started with Family First
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1. Intake
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2. Discovery
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3. Care Planning
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4. Ongoing Support
You can get started with Family First online or by calling 888-888-8888.
Based on your caregiving situation, you'll be paired with a dedicated Care Expert, who will lead your Care Team and serve as your single point of contact.
Our discovery process uncovers the real and root causes of your caregiving challenges. Interviews, virtual in-home assessments, and medical records review are just some of the tools in our tool box.
Data we collect is integrated into our Expert Caregiving Platform, which helps our Care Teams uncover gaps in care that others may miss. Responsive solutions are presented in a Care Plan, which we adjust as circumstances change.
Your engagement with Family First is provided at no cost to you. Our Care Teams stand ready to provide ongoing support and ensure plans are adjusted to changing circumstances and new challenges that may arise.
Care Library
You and your family have access to Family First's Care Library.
Written and curated by accredited professionals, the library is full of valuable information to empower you as a caregiver, and enhance the health and wellbeing of yourself and loved ones.
Frequently Asked Questions
What type of caregiving problems can you help with?
Families call Family First for all types of reasons from the simple to complex. Here is a small sample of our expertise:
- Eldercare
- Child & adolescent wellbeing
- Cognitive issues and dementia
- Aging in place
- Homecare and placement
- Crisis intervention
- Mental health and emotional support
- Substance use disorders
- New and chronic diagnoses
- Financial challenges, such as bill pay
- Insurance and Medicare navigation
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Who makes up your Care Teams?
Our Expert Care Teams consist of nurses, social workers, mental health professionals and Harvard-trained physicians. These professionals are your caregiving champions. Working collaboratively they:
- Will work with you to understand your caregiving situation
- Ensure you and your loved ones are on the correct care path
- Develop a comprehensive care plan and ensure your caregiving challenges have a resolution
- Relieve the heartache, anxiety, stress and financial challenges that come with being a caregiver.
What's your experience?
Experience matters. We have three decades of experience helping families care for their loved ones. Across thousands of cases and families served, we’ve always done our best to get people on the right care path.
To ensure the quality of our recommendations and ensure caregivers' needs are addressed completely, all of our care plans are peer-reviewed weekly by our Quality Team.
How do I get started with Family First?
You can get started with Family First online or by calling 888-888-8888.
If you do not reach a Care Expert immediately, one will reach out to you within four hours during business hours or the following business day during off-hours.
Our normal business hours are Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST.
Member resources
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- What to Expect (Our Process)
- Are You a Caregiver? (Quiz)
- Child & Adolescent Wellbeing Concerns
- Help with Substance Use
- Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Parents Considering Aging in Place
- Preparing to Return to the Office
- When a Loved One Has Cancer
- The Road to Heart Condition Recovery
- Respiratory Conditions
- Mobility Challenges
- Does Your Loved One Have Special Needs?
- Autism Spectrum Disorder & Puberty
- LGBTQ+ Caregiving Challenges