Charity Number: 82293 0616 RR0001

About Losing Our Parents

"Losing Our Parents" is an Internet-based community offering free support and education to family caregivers and others coping with the declining health or death of a parent.

"Losing Our Parents" is a new registered charity.  Recently a group of business, health and social work professionals formed a volunteer board of directors to start a charity that helps caregivers who are losing a parent.  Dedicated to helping you and Honouring them is the vision behind "Losing Our Parents." 

The board developed a plan that helps family caregivers through our interactive website and local events. It reaches out to thousands by providing information, outreach and connection to everyone who shares this journey.  "Losing Our Parents" launched in October, 2008.

The Board of Directors along with other organizers and volunteers of Losing Our Parents have experienced the stress, sorrow and pain of being caregivers and losing parents and are determined to help others. We chose "Losing Our Parents" as the name for our charity because we believe that there are three stages to losing a parent.  These stages are:

1. Declining health

2. Only a few months left

3. Passed away

We offer a forum for caregivers to share their stories, their journeys and celebrate the lives and gifts of loved ones.  This journey often begins with the decline in a parent's physical and mental health, years before death actually occurs.  Many caregivers and other family members are grieving while still caring for their parents and feel isolated and vulnerable.  We are open 24/7, with care and compassion for all.  We offer a venue for peer support, sons and daughters helping each other.  We are all volunteers, just trying to help.

We are proud to say that our business model is innovative and sustainable.  We hope you agree!

Everyone is either a son or a daughter and it is the only role we keep our whole lives.  "Losing Our Parents" therefore is a universal and timeless issue.                      

"Losing Our Parents" is a charity for our times, because of our times. We are pioneering new ways to reach, connect , support and help family caregivers as they deal with the changes in their families.