Caregivers care

who cares for them?

Ask About Care is a movement raising awareness for caregiver health and helping ensure caregivers are seen, supported, and included in healthcare conversations.

Help improve caregiver health. Your voice can create change.

Ask About Care was founded by Usha Tewari after experiencing firsthand how caregiving can quietly and significantly affect a caregiver’s own health.

While balancing a career in public service and nearly two decades of caring for her mother throughout her dementia journey, Usha often put her own health second delaying preventive care and experiencing stress, anxiety, and other health challenges.

Her perspective was also shaped by her father, a physician who believed deeply in keeping patients informed, educated, and empowered.

Through her experience, Usha recognized a critical gap in healthcare: caregivers are essential to the health of others, yet their own health needs can easily go unseen.

Drawing on her lived experience and background in federal and local government, she began exploring how caregiver identification and health could become a more routine part of healthcare conversations.

That idea became Ask About Care advancing caregiver health through education, practical resources, research, awareness, and policy.

Because caregivers deserve to be recognized as patients, too.

And sometimes, that recognition begins with one simple question:

“Are you a caregiver?”

founders message

Caregiving can affect health in ways that often go unseen.

• Only 23% of caregivers report good 🧠mental health

• 40% say caregiving negatively impacts 😓stress levels

• 53.4% of caregivers age 65+ live with two or more ❤️chronic conditions

• 34.8% of caregivers ages 45–64 report two ❤️chronic conditions

Sources: Guardian Life (2023) & Caregiving Action Network.

why this matters

Resources, tools, and helpful questions to support your health while caring for others.