After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched...
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Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting
A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working...
Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults
Adult Protective Services agencies in every state receive reports of possible neglect,...
The Care Economy: More State, Less Market
Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to...
Meet the Underdog of Senior Care
Ms. Biteranta now receives all of her health care through PACE, which monitors her, along with 120...
The weight of caring at home
"I wrote/drew this opinion piece for the LA Times two years ago, right before COVID drastically...
When siblings become caregivers
All of Marlene’s children live within an hour of her Michigan home, yet Sheila, who lives the...
When a Diagnosis Demands a Long-Term Money Strategy
A diagnosis may be alarming enough, but equally frightening can be the costs for medical...
A hospital offered a payment plan for baby’s NICU stay — $45,843 a month for a year
Under the 2010 health law, nonprofit hospitals are required to provide financial assistance to...
Sandwich Generation: How Do You Decide Whose Needs Come First?
Your parents need your help right now, and so do your adult kids. But what about saving for your...
Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, And Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry
BuzzFeed News has scoured hundreds of thousands of court documents, obtained confidential mental...
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a...
America isn’t taking care of caregivers
Dementia had not robbed Lillian of her fiercely independent spirit, but it had made her verbally...
Care is Infrastructure and We Must Compensate Caregivers Accordingly
Donald was proud of his caregiving role. His mom had raised him and his siblings on her own, while...
What happened when a ‘wildly irrational’ algorithm made crucial healthcare decisions
Because of his cerebral palsy, the 40-year-old, who works at an environmental engineering firm and...
The Caregiving Crisis Didn’t Start with COVID-19—It Won’t End With Biden’s $400 Billion Plan
On March 31, 2021, Biden proposed a $2 trillion American Jobs Plan—$400 billion of which would be...
Long-term caregiving is crushing women’s finances
After Angelena Taylor’s father survived a stroke in late 2015, she snapped into crisis mode. A...
The Crisis in Home Care
Kara Ward started her life as a caregiver earlier than most people do. She was only 29 when her...
Rosie Could Be a Riveter Only Because of a Care Economy. Where Is Ours?
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary,...
What it Means to Live in a Country that Does Not Guarantee Paid Family and Medical Leave
The United States stands alone among developed nations for failing to support families with paid...
How Family Caregivers Can Avoid Money Catastrophes
Amy Goyer has been a family caregiver her entire adult life. In her 20s, she assisted her...
How State and Local Laws Protect Family Caregivers from Discrimination at Work
Currently, about 41 million Americans provide care to an adult with limitations in daily...
Understanding Deputyship and the Court of Protection in England and Wales
Often people assume that if they were to lose their ability to look after their financial affairs...