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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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Today’s Mothers are Tomorrow’s Older Women

By on January 19, 2010 in Economy and Mothers, Mothers, Older Women, Social Security

Today we are mothers; tomorrow we will be older women. It’s inevitable. My colleague, Ashley Carson, fights the good fight against economic discrimination against mothers and other caregivers at the Older Women’s League. Her essay on congressional shenanigans with a “fast track commission”, bringing their ax down on our future social security benefits in the [...]

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