CONVERSATION

  Need help accessing care for an older adult, disabled person, or yourself? Here’s how to get started. Try the Eldercare Locator. This is a free tool that connects you to support in your community (transportation, housing, legal aid, etc.) and your local Area Agency on Aging. Visit eldercare.acl.gov or call 1-800-677-1116 What’s an Area Agency on Aging? […]

Sometimes the power of a story is clear. Like a lot of people, I often watch TV at the end of the day to unwind. I don’t typically turn on a show thinking “It’s time to learn something.” But there are also times when I find myself deeply relating to something that the characters are […]

Abortion is care, full stop. Today’s senseless Supreme Court decision overruled our rights to make choices about our bodies and families. It puts significant strain on our broken care systems by taking away an essential form of care that so many of us rely on. Abortion will still be legal in some states but states […]

During Pride Month, we celebrate the joy, breadth of experience, amazing accomplishments and tireless activism of our LGBTQ+ families and communities. Yet this year, we are also reminded that the care, love and acceptance that Pride Month stands for is under threat by legislation that aims to stifle and erase LGBTQ+ autonomy, dignity and community: […]

To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re bringing you an interview with Myrla Baldonado, Lead Organizer with the Pilipino Workers Center in Los Angeles, and a former domestic worker in Chicago. Myrla was one of Caring Across’s first activists back in 2013, and has been on the frontlines of the fight to […]

On February 18th, National Caregivers Day, we launched a larger-than-life ad campaign throughout DC and in Times Square that shed light on real care teams and their stories, and asked the millions of people who saw these ads big questions about care. Putting up giant digital billboards in the middle of Times Square is cool […]