Governor Stein Proclaims Family Caregivers Month

Family Caregiver Month

2025

By The Governor Of The State Of North Carolina

A Proclamation

Whereas, a 2023 report found that 1,280,000 family caregivers in North Carolina provided a total of nearly 1.2 billion hours of unpaid care to family members and friends, valued at a total of $16.5 billion; and

Whereas, approximately 80,000 North Carolina grandparents are responsible for grandchildren under 18; and

Whereas, North Carolina’s caregivers remain diverse in their characteristics and circumstances but share a common goal of keeping their family members or friends in their community of choice; and

Whereas, the North Carolina Division of Aging, the North Carolina Area Agencies on Aging, local providers, and many other organizations are committed to increasing awareness and meeting caregivers’ needs; and

Whereas, helping North Carolina’s family caregivers access and use support and acknowledge that respite services can protect a family caregiver’s health, strengthen family relationships, and enable a care recipient to remain at home; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina encourages people to recognize and support family, friends, and neighbors who help those who are aging or have disabilities because doing so is the right thing to do and an essential investment in a better future for North Carolina’s older adults and people with disabilities;

Now, Therefore, I, Josh Stein, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim November 2025 as “Family Caregiver Month” in North Carolina and commend its observance to all citizens.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this twenty-first day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-fifth and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.