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Many nursing homes across the country — including in California, Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island — have already permanently closed their doors in recent months.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
As nursing homes close, family caregivers — overwhelmingly women — will likely feel the additional strain. Almost 42 million Americans, or 16 percent of all adults, serve as caregivers for relatives 50 and over.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
According to data compiled by @AARP, most of the people doing this unpaid, labor-intensive work are women, and, on average, they are just shy of 50 themselves.
Many have jobs outside the home, or are also primary parents for young children.https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
“We don’t tend to think about long-term care until we need it,” Sanders said. “Long-term care has traditionally not gotten the ... recognition it deserves for its vital role in the health care system. I hope that as a result of the pandemic, that changes.”https://bit.ly/2MuQ8jI
This can’t happen
@HHSGov @PAHealthDept the reimbursement rate needs to increase.
I am one of them, caring for my mom because she’s afraid of going to hospital or anything like that, she’s 80.
Story of my life....
Can't relate! My mom raised a cold 
, I'm leaving her ass to struggle alone. We can't both be unemployed. If she wanted elder care she should have raised me to be a stockbroker, or had more kids so her odds of getting a millionaire were higher. It's every woman for herself! 
Well I don’t think my parents would want to stay in my one bedroom apt I split with my friend, us being millenials with no future and no home ownership on the horizon. Plus they had their time to harp the benefits as baby boomers, multiple inheritances, etc
Been there with both parents and it is an emotional and physical beating fraught with bouts of guilt, sorrow, desperation, isolation and anger that no one will help. 99.9% of the time you are honored to care for them, bathe them, feed them. 00.1% of the time you’re just done. 
Isn't this what we're supposed to do? Old fashioned I know, but still...
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