Tag: family caregiver
In a recent podcast, I talk with Robert Espinoza, the founder of The CareWorks Project, about his mission to improve the quality and delivery of long-term care. He points out that our current system was designed at a different time when care was seen as an extension of hospital care. Now, most people are receiving…
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…
