You can buy this great lawn sign on Etsy, but you might want to get out a black marker and add “Deserve Hazard Pay” at the bottom. Most essential workers in the U.S. are still in suspense regarding the possibility of compensation for their forced exposure to Covid-19 infection. The big question is when and if the HEROES act proposed… Read more →
Category: home and community-based care for the sick, disabled or frail
China’s Looming Care Crisis
Guest post by Barbara E. Hopkins, Wright State University. The Chinese Communist Party has officially abandoned the “one-child” policy and now allows all married couples to have two children. However welcome this policy shift, it is unlikely to fend off the worsening care crisis associated with an aging population. The New York Times reports that only 12% of eligible couples responded… Read more →
The Dollar Value of Grown-Up Care
I love the title of the regular–and recently updated– AARP Public Policy Institute report estimating the value of family care for adults with limitations in daily activities: “Valuing the Invaluable.” It calls attention to the estimated replacement cost without fetishizing the dollars. If those family members were not on the case, money expenditures on health and long term services would be… Read more →