caregivers

For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for life

8:00am December 23, 2024

Caregiving responsibilities can cut young people off from peers and interrupt their emerging life story. And there's been little research or support directed at this group. That's starting to change.

National

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation'

5:00am October 08, 2024

Harris used ABC’s The View — a popular daytime television talk show — to unveil a new pledge squarely aimed at women who take care of aging parents as well as their own kids.

Medicare explores a new way to support caregivers of dementia patients

6:10am July 04, 2024

The government is launching an experimental program to ease the burden on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. The idea is to keep patients healthier without exhausting their families.

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Health & Safety

They sacrificed to care for family and ended up on the street

11:24am May 29, 2024

by Kat McGowan

Many people lose income when they become caregivers for a family member. Some even end up losing their home.

Caregiver Liliya Khodunay cuts Anna's hair in Anna's home in Milan, Italy, in February 2023.

World News

Ukrainian caregivers in Italy feel effects of war from afar

11:04am February 20, 2024

by Chiara Negrello

Photographer Chiara Negrello documented Ukrainian caregivers in Italy as they try to stay connected to family back home during the ongoing war.

Rita Salamanca posa en su casa, en San Cristóbal.

Health & Safety

Así cuida Bogotá a las personas que ayudan a otros

9:18am December 18, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Cómo Bogotá cuida de las cuidadoras familiares: desde clases de baile hasta formación laboral

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A child from the Mbendjele people, a hunter-gatherer community that lives in the northern rainforests of the Republic of Congo. A new study found that children in this society have on average 8 caregivers in addition to the mother to provide hands-on attention.

Health & Safety

Bringing up a baby can be a tough and lonely job. Here's a solution: alloparents

10:27am December 01, 2023

by Michaeleen Doucleff

"Allo" is Greek for "other." Alloparents are helpful relatives and neighbors. In a study from Congo, babies had 8 alloparents on average. Perhaps the self-reliant nuclear family is a societal misstep.

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Salamanca, joined by her grandkids at the end of science class, wait their turn to look through a microscope.

How Bogotá cares for its family caregivers: From dance classes to job training

12:37pm October 16, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

More than a million women in Bogotá, Colombia, do unpaid family caregiver work full-time. The country has launched a groundbreaking program called "Care Blocks" to ease their burden.

Kathleen McAuliffe, a home care worker for Catholic Charities in a Portland, Maine, suburb, helps client John Gardner with his weekly chores. McAuliffe shops for Gardner's groceries, cleans his home and runs errands for him during her weekly visit.

With Workers In Short Supply, Seniors Often Wait Months For Home Health Care

5:03am June 30, 2021

by Phil Galewitz

Seniors, their families and states are eager to keep older Americans in their homes and out of nursing homes, but those efforts are often thwarted by worker shortages and low pay.

Unpaid Caregivers Were Already Struggling. It's Only Gotten Worse During The Pandemic

7:58pm June 17, 2021

by Rhitu Chatterjee

A new CDC study finds that people who provide unpaid care for their children or adult loved ones are twice as likely as noncaregivers to have experienced depression or anxiety, or thoughts of suicide.