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14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor

Rewrite the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers

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483 14. Department of Health and Human Services

“Readdress the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. … The strategy should be examined to establish an efficient plan to support caregivers and their families. There should also be a review of its COVID-19 policies.”

What has happened

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    The National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers stands as issued. ACL's strategy page, last modified 2025-07-25, still presents the 2022 document and its components unchanged - the strategy itself, the First Principles paper, the roughly 350 near-term federal actions across 15 agencies and the 150-plus actions for states and communities - describes the strategy as one that 'will be updated in response to public comments', and announces no review, rewrite or re-examination of its COVID-19 content. No Federal Register document in the window mentions the strategy: full text returns 0 for 'National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers'. The RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council, which produced it, has issued nothing in the window that an allowlisted source records.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • acl.gov can be read; the page carries its own ‘Last modified on 07/25/2025’ stamp, which is what dates the Evidence. A page-modified date is weaker than a document date, and it shows only that the page was touched, not that the strategy was reviewed.
  • Searched: Federal Register API since 2025-01-20 - “National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers” (0), “family caregiver” combined with ACL (nothing on point); among the bills we keep and search, from congress.gov, titles matching “family caregiver” (9, all referred to committee).
  • HHS regulatory agenda, checked 2026-09-01. Checked against the full HHS agenda on reginfo.gov (183 active RINs in the 2026 Unified Agenda, published 2026-08-14), not the abbreviated version the Federal Register prints. The nearest entry is recorded here. It does not name this ask’s object, so the Status did not change: an agenda entry counts as an attempt only when it names what the ask asks for.
    • ACL’s single active entry, 0985-AA19 (Older Americans Act, Title III, VI, and VII, Proposed Rule Stage, NPRM 12/2026), revises the definition of “Greatest Social Need” at 45 CFR part 1321 for consistency with Executive Order 14168. It is the only ACL rulemaking on the agenda and it does not reach the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers.
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National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
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