NFCA Corporate Leadership Council.
Founding Partners:
Intel’s Digital Health Group
 Intel is committed to finding new and innovative ways to apply technology in support of today’s caregiving population. Informed by nearly a decade of ethnographic studies, Intel shares a vision with healthcare leaders of using innovative technologies to transform healthcare, improve chronic disease management, and enhance wellness and independence. Intel is constantly working to develop new health technologies that will increase patient care and safety, reduce healthcare costs, and improve quality of life across the continuum of care.
Family Partners:
Eisai Inc.
Eisai Inc. is a US pharmaceutical subsidiary of Tokyo-based Eisai Co., Ltd., a research-based human health care company that discovers, develops and markets products throughout the world. Eisai focuses its efforts in three therapeutic areas: neurology, gastrointestinal disorders, and oncology/critical care. Established in 1995 and ranked among the top-20 U.S. pharmaceutical companies (based on retail sales), Eisai Inc. began marketing its first product in the United States in 1997 and has rapidly grown to become an integrated pharmaceutical business.
Caring Partners:
Forest Laboratories, Inc.
 Forest Laboratories (NYSE: FRX) is a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company with a long track record of building partnerships and developing and delivering products that make a positive difference in people’s lives. In addition to its well-established franchises in therapeutic areas of the central nervous and cardiovascular systems, Forest’s current pipeline includes product candidates in all stages of development and across a wide range of therapeutic areas. The company is headquartered in New York, NY. To learn more about Forest Laboratories, visit www.FRX.com.
Home Instead
 The Home Instead Senior Care family network of locally owned franchise offices was developed with a passionate desire to be your trusted source in helping you keep your aging mother, father, grandparents or friends in their home as they grow older. The Home Instead Senior Care franchise network provides a range of services including companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, shopping, errands, and more. When family members or friends aren't able to help the older adults they love, Home Instead Senior Care CAREGivers are there.
The Johnson & Johnson Caregiver Initiative
 The Johnson & Johnson Caregiver Initiative is a pioneer in the emerging field of family caregiver support and StrengthForCaring.com (SFC) is the cornerstone of this important program. SFC is a comprehensive website designed to provide family caregivers with a broad range of expert content and information, an emerging on-line community, daily inspiration, and much needed support.
Lotsa Helping Hands
 Lotsa Helping Hands was created to support family caregivers and volunteers by empowering their circles of community who are eager to help those in need. The Lotsa Helping Hands mission is to provide the communication resources facilitating a world where caregivers feel empowered to ask for help, and in so doing, improve their own health and quality-of-life. Volunteers can become part of the solution when family, friends, neighbors or colleagues are in need of help, and community becomes a recognized way to find meaning in both giving and receiving.
Novartis
 Novartis seeks to discover, develop and successfully market innovative products to prevent and cure diseases, to ease suffering and to enhance the quality of life. Novartis offers a wide range of healthcare products through its Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Diagnostics, Sandoz and Consumer Health Divisions. Nearly 100,000 people are working at Novartis to help save lives and improve quality of life.
Friends:
Abbott Labs
Abbott Labs is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health. Our products span the continuum of care, from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics through medical devices and pharmaceutical therapies. Our comprehensive line of products encircles life itself - addressing important health needs from infancy to the golden years.
AGIS
AGIS.com provides education, support, expert advice, local resources and a vibrant community for caregivers and families of the elderly.
Elan Wyeth
 Wyeth is one of the world's largest research-driven pharmaceutical and health care products companies. It is a leader in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biotechnology products and non-prescription medicines that improve the quality of life for people worldwide. The Company's major divisions include Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare and Fort Dodge Animal Health.
NACDS Foundation
 The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is dedicated to providing the nation's leading retail chain pharmacies and suppliers with a unified voice necessary for growth and success. Every day, NACDS works to enable and support its members to better meet the ever-changing needs of their patients and customers, while representing the practical, legislative, and regulatory needs of community pharmacies across the nation.
Pfizer
Pfizer is committed to being a global leader in health care and to helping change millions of lives for the better through providing access to safe, effective and affordable medicines and related health care services to the people who need them. We have a leading portfolio of medicines that prevent, treat and cure diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas, and an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products in areas such as oncology, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
To ensure that we deliver the value our patients and customers need and our shareholders deserve, we are focused on continually improving the way we do business; on operating with transparency in everything we do; and on listening to the views of all of the people involved in health care decisions. We know that we can best ensure that people everywhere have access to innovative medicines and quality health care through working in partnership with everyone from patients to health care providers, managed care organizations to world governments and non-governmental organizations.
PhRMA
 The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country’s leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA’s mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage discovery of important new medicines for patients by pharmaceutical/biotechnology research companies.
Purdue Pharma
 Purdue Pharma L.P., a privately held pharmaceutical company founded by physicians, is focused on meeting the needs of healthcare providers and the patients in their care. The company is committed to finding, developing, and bringing to market new medicines and related products that improve health outcomes.
Purdue has long been known for its pioneering research on persistent pain, a principal cause of human suffering. In 1993, the company established Partners Against Pain® as a resource to help patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers advance standards of pain care and alleviate unnecessary suffering through education and advocacy.
Sanofi-aventis
 Sanofi-aventis U.S., based in Bridgewater, NJ, and employing 15,000 people across the country, is part of a leading global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, produces, and markets innovative therapies that enhance people’s lives. Extensive research and development efforts are focused on health care challenges in cardiology, oncology and internal medicine, as well as metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders and vaccines.
Supporters:
PBE Tranquility
 Tranquility, the Home-Caring Brand, is a complete line of Adult Disposable Incontinence Products manufactured by Principle Business Enterprises, Inc. (PBE), designed and developed by medical professionals and caregivers. Tranquility products help to restore your lifestyle, confidence and peace of mind, all while protecting fragile skin.
Right at Home
 Right at Home is a national in-home care and assistance agency that provides your loved ones with the care and attention they deserve in the comfort of their own surroundings. Our local offices provide well-trained, insured and bonded caregivers for a variety of elder care services, and manage that care locally on your behalf. Whether you are seeking help with basic home maker services, personal care, or light skilled nursing, caregivers with Right at Home deliver quality care that can help your loved ones remain independent and fulfilled. Visit www.rightathome.net to learn more and to locate an office.
TEVA Neuroscience
 Teva Neuroscience is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., responsible for the development, registration, and marketing for all of Teva’s branded neurological products in North America.
The company has administrative and commercial offices in Kansas City, MO, clinical research activities and regulatory functions in Horsham, PA and clinical, biometric and regulatory functions Miami, FL. Montreal, Quebec is home to the company’s Canadian headquarters.
Teva Neuroscience has a strong commitment to patients and currently markets COPAXONE® (glatiramer acetate injection) for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and AZ ILE CT® (rasagiline tablets) for Parkinson’s disease in the US and Canada.
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