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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 is catastrophic for women and families. Families are now dependent upon two wages, yet women bear the brunt of family care. It’s not sustainable… burdening only a half of the population for earning an income, caring for children and the elderly.
A lot of them pay their workers $10/hour, meanwhile the nursing home is raking in thousands and thousands from what they charge the people living there.
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