Caregiving Archives

04.26.2021 person dying in bed

Dying at Home: The Unsung Role of Home Care Workers

While many Americans wish for a death at home, the living feel uncertain about how to create a ritually satisfying experience. As a result, immigrant home care workers find themselves helping families manage the dying process, even though it is not part of their official job description.

Guest Author Cati Coe

03.01.2021 a graph of a number of people

Health Equity

Women's Work

As long as our current gender roles levy more domestic work on women, their productivity is at risk.

Fellow Edward Alexander

08.27.2020 a diagram of a child care program

Child Care and Covid-19

Permanent loss of access to child care limits essential worker readiness and impacts how quickly nonessential workers return to business.

Fellow Pat Williams

07.28.2020 a map of the united states

Health at Home

Congress has supported measures to encourage home health agencies to work in rural areas since the 1980s by using rural add-on payments.

Fellow Gray Babbs

05.18.2020 a person in a protective suit holding a swab to a boy's face

Caring for Immigrant Caregivers

Without immigrants to fill a substantial portion of the direct care workforce, direct care shortages may be worse than previously estimated.

Fellow Gray Babbs

12.09.2019 a close-up of a person holding a card

Caregivers' Culture of Care

Adhering to the traditional family norm of filial obligation has a protective effect on Chinese immigrants' caregiving burdens.

Guest Author May Guo

11.19.2019 close up of an old person's hands

20 Years of Options in Oregon

Health departments play an important role in providing objective data as states consider legalizing an option to hasten death in terminally-ill patients.

Guest Author Katrina Hedberg

10.23.2019 a close up of a man's hands

Our Silent Caregivers

Family caregiving has historically focused on female assistance, and men’s contributions to long-term caregiving have been marginalized and under-estimated.

Guest Author Mónika López-Anuarbe

11.29.2018 Child of color at daycare

Who Cares for Our Children?

Parents assume their child will be treated fairly and with respect at childcare facilities, but children of color may be experiencing bias from the adults caring for them.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

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