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News Articles: caregivers

Dakota Heath, 26, and Jordyn Glick, 27, at their apartment building in Lubbock, Texas. Heath takes care of Glick, who has an unpredictable and painful gastrointestinal disorder. Roughly a quarter of family caregivers are young adults.

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  • Health

For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for life

Caregiving responsibilities can cut young people off from peers and interrupt their emerging life story. And there's been little research or support directed at this group. That's starting to change.

December 23, 2024
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  • Kat McGowan
Dawn Shedrick, left, is one of roughly 106 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S. For 30 years, Shedrick taken care of her mother, Nathalia Shedrick, right, who has multiple sclerosis.

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  • Health

Caregiving can be a tough, lonely mission. One daughter found ways to reconnect

Some 106 million people provide unpaid care for an adult in the U.S. Many feel invisible and profoundly lonely. But some are creating new ways to support each other.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Kat McGowan
Vice President Harris talks to hosts of ABC's <em>The View</em> during a commercial break on Oct. 8.

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  • Politics

Harris proposes Medicare cover home care costs to help the 'sandwich generation'

Harris used ABC’s The View — a popular daytime television talk show — to unveil a new pledge squarely aimed at women who take care of aging parents as well as their own kids.

October 08, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Family members often provide caregiving for people with dementia and it can take a financial and emotional toll.

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  • Health

Medicare explores a new way to support caregivers of dementia patients

The government is launching an experimental program to ease the burden on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. The idea is to keep patients healthier without exhausting their families.

July 04, 2024
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By:
  • Alex Olgin and
  • Dan Gorenstein
If you are past the age or don’t meet the requirements for jury duty, you should know so you can be exempted by the court. BERMIX STUDIO Unsplash

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Could your age or health get you out of jury duty? Here are Georgia’s requirements

Once or twice a year, you may get a letter in the mail telling you that you need to serve on a jury for a court case you probably know nothing about. While you would be contributing to your community, at a certain age it can become harder to serve on a jury. Here are some requirements and restrictions that need to be met for a citizen to still be allowed to attend jury duty.

June 21, 2024
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  • The Telegraph
The gold dome of the Georgia Capitol gleams in the sun, Aug. 27, 2022, in front of the skyline of downtown Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Georgia Senate study committees to look at firearm safety, AI, correction facilities, more

The 2024 Georgia General Assembly Senate Study Committees are in session starting this week. Like bills, study committees are proposed during the legislative session but as resolutions the sponsor believes need further examining during the off-season.  This year's study committees will analyze several topics, including firearm safety, artificial intelligence, affordable child care, and more.

June 18, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Wymon Johnson, poses for a portrait at his residence in Bakersfield, Calif. Johnson is currently renting a room from a friend while he is waiting for long term housing through the Kern County Housing Authority.

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  • Health

They sacrificed to care for family and ended up on the street

Many people lose income when they become caregivers for a family member. Some even end up losing their home.

May 29, 2024
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  • Kat McGowan
Caregiver Liliya Khodunay cuts Anna's hair in Anna's home in Milan, Italy, in February 2023.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian caregivers in Italy feel effects of war from afar

Photographer Chiara Negrello documented Ukrainian caregivers in Italy as they try to stay connected to family back home during the ongoing war.

February 20, 2024
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  • Chiara Negrello
Manzanas del Cuidado, el programa para cuidadoras, encomendó la realización de murales en honor a Ruth Infante (izquierda) y Rita Salamanca por el importante papel que desempeñan como cuidadoras en la comunidad. Los murales están expuestos en una escuela del centro de San Cristóbal.

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  • Global Health

Así cuida Bogotá a las personas que ayudan a otros

Cómo Bogotá cuida de las cuidadoras familiares: desde clases de baile hasta formación laboral

December 18, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
A child from the Mbendjele people, a hunter-gatherer community that lives in the northern rainforests of the Republic of Congo. A new study found that children in this society have on average 8 caregivers in addition to the mother to provide hands-on attention.

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  • Family

Bringing up a baby can be a tough and lonely job. Here's a solution: alloparents

"Allo" is Greek for "other." Alloparents are helpful relatives and neighbors. In a study from Congo, babies had 8 alloparents on average. Perhaps the self-reliant nuclear family is a societal misstep.

December 01, 2023
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Ruth Infante (second from left), a single mother of three, and her classmates donned traditional flowing dresses for their <em>Cumbia</em> dance performance at a "care block" center in Bogotá, Colombia. The class is one of the free services offered to anyone in the neighborhood who is an unpaid caregiver for their family.

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  • Global Health

How Bogotá cares for its family caregivers: From dance classes to job training

More than a million women in Bogotá, Colombia, do unpaid family caregiver work full-time. The country has launched a groundbreaking program called "Care Blocks" to ease their burden.

October 16, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Patricia Moran watches as children play at her child care facility in San Jose, Calif.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia’s child care workers are among the lowest paid in the nation

While the cost of care burdens American families like in no other wealthy country, caregivers here are paid worse than 98% of professions, leading to chronic workforce shortages and high turnover. That's according to an annual report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation published this week..    

June 14, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
 Commissioner Kevin Tanner said he sees funding a rate study’s recommendations as “the first step in several to correct the workforce issue.” Others say the funding falls short of what’s needed. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Ga. workers who care for disabled people are in line for a pay hike. But allies say more is needed

Workers who assist people with disabilities would receive about a $5-per-hour salary increase if decision-makers heed the recommendations packed into an ongoing wage review.​​​​​​ ​But service providers say such an increase would fall short of what is needed.

February 10, 2023
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  • Jill Nolin
Jane Grillo and Joe Grillo outside White County High School

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  • Health

Informal family and unpaid caregivers often sacrifice pay, benefits and their own health. Here's why

Many unpaid caregivers leave professional careers or dramatically reduce their hours to help their elders or adult children with disabilities.

February 07, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Sihouette of woman holding toddler

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  • Health

Nearly 12K Georgia children lost a caregiver to COVID-19; federal funds could help

About one in every 215 children in Georgia have lost a caregiver due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. That's nearly 12,000 people under the age of 18 whose parent or grandparent, that lived with them and provided support for them, died, according to data shared by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

October 17, 2022
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  • Ellen Eldridge
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