Dementia care comes with ‘catastrophic’ costs for older adults, families, study finds mcknightsseniorliving.com/news/dementia-…

Love this slide from Bruce Mehlman mehlmanconsulting.com/wp-content/upl…

Deeply grateful to The Carter Center and Reveal Mother Jones for the opportunity to tackle a crucial, timely issue for youth and to learn alongside an incredible group of colleagues @angelawchen Edward Graham Amanda Miller Littlejohn Kat McGowan Emi Nietfeld Margo Snipe @aitanavargas

A semi optimistic look at where journalists are finding work. 1 in 10 working for nonprofits. And there’s work in other non traditional places, tho its independence is a question washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Is Hospital at Home Feasible? "Curing Ourselves of Toxic Positivity for Hospital-at-Home" Au Contraire piece by Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA JACC Journals Distorted Economics, Real-World Logistical Complexity, Caregiver Burnout and more: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… JACC Journals #JACCHF Tariq Ahmad MD MPH

This a dangerous prediction but today might be a record shattering day for Hot Takes.

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

Obviously campaigns involve a lot of issues but more confirmation Harris is placing the care economy stuff at the center — paid leave, child poverty, childcare, eldercare, housing all get checked pretty early on here

infuriating to see men suggesting that the purpose of older women is to assist in raising children when their true purpose is to solve crimes.

Notable that Pelosi is not just mentioning caregiving in passing, but talking about it for the whole three minutes.

Enhanced ACA premium subsidies have led to record enrollment. The three states with the biggest enrollment increases this year: Texas, Florida, and Georgia. kff.org/policy-watch/a…

Study exposes the dangerous ‘hidden’ mental burden of #cancer on patients’ spouses. Risk of #suicide increased in year after diagnosis, suggesting caregivers need more support, by Angus Rohan Chen statnews.com/2024/08/19/can… via STAT Dennis Kendel #caregiving

We Arnold Ventures were frustrated that the US publishes data on the # of hogs slaughtered each day with a one day lag but national crime stats only annually, 9 months later. Since the FBI can't/won't publish more timely data, we funded the creation of realtimecrimeindex.com

“What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen in the ER?” The daily consequences of a completely broken healthcare system.

oh my god

San Diego has now reported a locally transmitted dengue case, now the 6th in California this year A reminder that, before this year, California had reported only two cases of local dengue since 2010 sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sd…

Wow. Expanding Medicare to cover in-home care would be huge--and very expensive. Whether or not it actually happens, it's wonderful to hear a pol at her level talk about caregiving in terms of dignity, independence and pride.

Added context on what Kamala Harris said on The View about covering caregiving through Medicare: This is *not* just a sandwich generation issue. They have it hard, but far more--70 percent of the unpaid family caregivers for adults--are not in that situation.

I spoke with Dawn Shedrick for a story for NPR about caregiving and loneliness. Tomorrow we'll be on NPR Weekend Edition talking caregiving with host Ayesha Rascoe. Our conversation is scheduled to air at 9.41 ET (times different in different time zones). npr.org/sections/shots…