Health Mar 30 As America’s population ages, women shoulder the burden as primary caregivers By Ali Rogin, Claire Mufson, Satvi Sunkara
Health Jun 28 Families fear for future of Medicaid caregiver payment program Many state Medicaid programs either started paying family caregivers or made more people eligible for help after the pandemic hit. But now with the COVID-19 public health emergency over, some states have already stopped the payments while others have yet… By Tom Murphy, Amanda Seitz, Associated Press
Nation Feb 23 Watch 7:29 Raising children for a second time, ‘grandfamilies’ struggle during the pandemic More and more older adults are raising kids for the second time around because of illness, incarceration, addiction, or any number of reasons. And since the start of the pandemic, almost 40 percent of "grandfamilies" say they struggle to pay… By Stephanie Sy, Diane Lincoln Estes
Health Dec 27 Watch 4:38 2020 in Review: vaccine hesitancy, elective surgeries and medical caregiving NewsHour Weekend’s Connie Kargbo joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss some of her most impactful work from 2020: necessary ‘elective’ surgeries being suspended during the pandemic due to hospital overflow; vaccine hesitancy; and how aging caregivers, at risk for COVID, ask… By PBS NewsHour
Health May 26 Watch 10:20 COVID-19 has made life much harder for family caregivers. Here are some of their stories The number of Americans providing unpaid care for loved ones has been rising in recent years. The coronavirus pandemic and the associated shutdowns have made these difficult roles that much harder, increasing isolation and limiting resources. We hear stories from…