Archive: University of Massachusetts Boston
Some 38 million family caregivers spend an estimated 36 billion hours a year caring for their loved ones. The patchwork of federal and state assistance available to them doesn’t match up to the weight of this burden. One policy in particular stands out as something they feel would help them: direct payments for their tim…
The answer from caregivers is clear. In the U.S. today, roughly 38 million people provide unpaid eldercare. That number is likely to dramatically increase in the future as the number of people needing care grows. One of the biggest challenges with unpaid care is…well, that it’s unpaid – and, in fact, it often reduces people’s…
