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Medicaid is a lifeline for nearly 80 million people across the country—including disabled people, older adults, family caregivers, care workers, children, and families. It provides essential healthcare and aging and disability, including aging and disability care in our homes and communities where most people prefer to live and age. Yet despite its life-saving impact, Medicaid […]

By Vicki Shabo, Better Life Lab at New America and Lydia Storie, Caring Across Generations Even though more than 40 percent of adults in the U.S. are providing unpaid care for someone in their life, TV shows that feature care as a central or even ancillary aspect of characters’ lives and the plots are rare […]

When I started caregiving for my grandma in 2017, I didn’t know what I was in for. I knew that I loved my grandma and wanted to provide the best for her but I didn’t realize the cost. At 29, I was a carefree bartender, living my best millennial life without too many worries or […]

You’re a caregiver… Now what? Care is one of the most common responsibilities we share in life. Whether it’s caring for a child, an aging parent, or a disabled family member, more than 105 million people in the U.S. provide care. But caregiving often happens unexpectedly, leaving us to navigate new and unfamiliar roles with […]

More than 40 percent of people in the U.S. are caregivers, but many may not even realize it. Whether it’s caring for an aging parent, supporting a disabled partner, or juggling the demands of raising children, care is woven into the fabric of our lives in ways that are both obvious and subtle. Yet, these […]

Caring Across is helping to finance and produce its first-ever film featuring a disabled family caregiver! “Take Me Home,” the short film which anchored the White House’s Olmstead anniversary event, is being adapted into a feature-length film. With initial funding from Jane Shin Park, an executive producer on the short, Caring Across aims to raise […]