The Unpaid Caregiver Dilemma & Why It Matters

Many of the strategies for improving the U.S. health and human service system are based on moving more consumers with chronic conditions and complex support needs to home-based care that is tech-enabled and supported by unpaid caregivers. There are two big assumptions here. First, that there is stable housing for this population—a topic that we have covered before (see Leveraging Medicaid To Address The Housing Issue and Making Choice A Community Living Option). The second assumption is that there is a supply of willing and able unpaid caregivers for these consumers. If you look at the . . .