| R 104 |
| 2025 -- S 0365 Enacted 02/25/2025 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY 21, 2025, TO BE "NATIONAL CAREGIVERS DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Senator Hanna M. Gallo |
| Date Introduced: February 24, 2025 |
| WHEREAS, National Caregivers Day was created in 2015, and first celebrated in 2016, |
| by the Providers Association for Home Health & Hospice Agencies (PAHHHA) as a way to |
| recognize and thank the millions of caregivers who go the extra mile every day to provide |
| critically important and nurturing care to millions of Americans; and |
| WHEREAS, According to a 2020 report from the National Alliance for Caregiving and |
| the American Association of Retired Persons, approximately 53 million caregivers in the United |
| States cared for an adult or child without pay. Most caregivers take care of one adult, but |
| approximately fifteen percent care for two adults, and three percent care for three or more adults. |
| The Institute on Aging reports that more than seventy-five percent of caregivers are female; and |
| WHEREAS, The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index also reports that caregivers spend |
| an average of six days in a month grooming, feeding, dressing, bathing, and walking the people |
| they take care of, thirteen days a month commuting, cleaning, doing laundry, monitoring |
| medication, shopping and cooking special meals for their patients, and a further thirteen hours a |
| month coordinating visits with physicians, researching symptoms and diseases, and managing |
| finances; and |
| WHEREAS, Each year, National Caregivers Day offers an opportunity to thank and show |
| appreciation to our local caregivers, including professional caregivers such as home health aides, |
| nurses, and therapists, as well as informal family caregivers, who provide critically needed and |
| loving care to so many people within our communities. Our communities are truly blessed to have |
| these hard-working and dedicated professionals serving our neighborhoods and taking care of our |
| loved ones and those in need of daily care and assistance; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby proclaims February |
| 21, 2025, to be "National Caregivers Day" in the State of Rhode Island; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Providers Association for Home Health & |
| Hospice Agencies (PAHHHA). |
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