Caring for a spouse, parent, child, relative or friend affects far more than your schedule. It can touch your finances, your physical health, your work, your relationships and your own wellbeing, often in ways that are hard to see while you are in the middle of it.This free Caregiver Burden Assessment asks 22 short questions about your day-to-day experience as a caregiver. It takes about six minutes, works on your phone, and asks for no name, email, payment or health details. Your answers stay in your own browser.Instead of one vague number, you get a score out of 100 plus a separate score for ten practical areas of caregiving: time and caregiving demands, physical demands, emotional strain, financial pressure, work and daily-life disruption, social isolation, confidence and caregiving ability, support and respite, healthcare coordination, and your personal health and wellbeing. Those areas are ranked from highest to lowest pressure, so you can see exactly where to start.This is not a medical or psychological diagnosis. It is a way of naming the problem clearly, in your own words, before you decide what to do next.
Whatever your results show, they describe what you reported today; not a verdict on how well you are caring for someone. Caregiving pressure shifts as circumstances change, so it is worth retaking the assessment every few months, or after a hospital stay, a change in condition, or a change in your own work or health.Use your highest-priority areas as your starting point. Each one comes with a first practical step, plus a checklist you can tick off as you go. Small, specific actions in the areas under the most pressure tend to help far more than trying to fix everything at once.If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988.