#cargiving

My mother was diagnosed with cancer when I was the district attorney of San Francisco. I remember cooking meals for her and taking her to her appointments. I did what I could to make her comfortable. I figured out which clothes were soft enough that they wouldn't irritate her, and told her stories to try and make her laugh.

Caregiving is about dignity—not just for the patient, but also for the caregiver. We must lower the costs and ease the burdens faced by our caregivers to make it easier for them to provide care while pursuing their aspirations.

Today, I am announcing a new historic Medicare at Home benefit as part of my plan to help families with caregiving needs and strengthen Medicare for the long-term. Over 67 million people are covered by Medicare, yet many Americans don’t realize that Medicare does not cover long-term services and assistance like home health aides.

As a result, many American families face challenging and sometimes impossible choices.

My plan will strengthen Medicare to cover home care services and support for seniors. This will include providing care workers with better wages, improving the quality of care for seniors and those with disabilities, and treating our seniors with the dignity they deserve.

Caregiving, from infancy to old age, is an integral part of human flourishing in every society. It also relies predominantly on the labor of women and girls and is underpinned by persistent gender norms. Now, the recent caregiving crisis of Covid-19 and longer-term trends such as aging populations have begun to draw critical attention to the shortcomings of the global care economy, and have spurred new calls for action.

A flurry of recent efforts has included the 2022 Bali Care Economy Dialogue, the 2023 Women Deliver Care Economy Pre-Conference, a historic resolution on care this year at the ILO, and heightened attention at forums like the G7 and APEC. The latest fruit of this growing activism is an ambitious new publication, The Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy, from an informal coalition that includes the Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, the independent policy think-tank CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Women.

The Roadmap provides a novel framework to elevate care on the global agenda by 2030. By identifying universal metrics and proposing systematic initiatives, it helps policymakers, advocates, researchers, and donors identify and begin to address gaps in the global care economy. Joining us this week to talk about the Roadmap, including key findings and next steps, are two of its authors, Kelsey Harris, of the Center for Global Development, and Ankita Panda, of the Asia Foundation.

October 29, 2024, marks the United Nations’ second International Day of Care and Support.

You have been setting goals your whole life, such as – graduate college, achieve success in your chosen field, get married, have kids, save for retirement, etc. These goals have kept you motivated, focused, and driven. So why not apply the same thinking to everything you want to accomplish in life? We have put together a list of The Best Bucket List Apps.

Triage for the Caregiver

A Caregiver’s Guide

           The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest significance and meaning.                                    Pablo Casals, World-Renowned Cellist

Longer life expectancy means we are becoming a triple-deckersandwich generation, caring for kids or grandkids, helping aging parents as well as managing our own life and medical needs, while often times…