Riding the Roller Coaster: Caregivers of People with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

The National Alliance for Caregiving, in partnership with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and ImproveCareNow, is proud to release the first national report, to our knowledge, on caregiving of individuals with inflammatory bowel disease. This video provides an overview of the report and perspectives from individuals and caregivers with lived experiences managing IBD, from the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term that describes chronic inflammation of the digestive tract.

Riding the Roller Coaster of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A National Study of Caregivers of Individuals with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis focuses on caregiving for the more than three million Americans affected by the two most common forms of IBD.

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