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Family Caregivers, the Future, and Now

Family Caregivers, the Future, and Now

By on June 4, 2014 in Caregiving, economic impact family caregiving, Family Friendly Policies, Healthy Families Act, Older Women

My friend and colleague in the fight for family caregivers, Janice Lynch Schuster, recently had a conversation with her children about what may happen when she becomes older. It went like this, as Janice wrote in Fierce Urgency of Now: Family Caregivers and the Future that is Upon Us for the blog Disruptive Women in [...]

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The Senate, the Swine Flu, and Sick Days

By on November 10, 2009 in Healthy Families Act, Paid Sick Days

The President, the Center for Disease Control, your doctor, and your child’s teacher are telling you to stay home, or keep your child home, when the body aches, the head pounds, and the fever rages. Fine. But how can you do that if you don’t have any paid sick days? This was the question at [...]

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