HeyJaredRisking Old Age in America: The Coming Elder Care Crisis
In just five years, the oldest of the 76 million baby boomers in the United States will begin reaching their late 80s, an at which people are more likely to need care.
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Nicole Jorwic on Caregiving’s Funding Crisis (opens the original)
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Harry interviews Nicole Jorwic, Chief Program Officer at Caring Across Generations, about the challenges facing unpaid family caregivers and the paid direct care workforce. Jorwic explains that unpaid caregivers contribute about $1.1 trillion annually, while the largely female, heavily immigrant direct care workforce faces low wages, limited benefits, and unstable jobs—creating a system where care is both underpaid and unaffordable. She argues Medicaid funds over 70% of direct care wages and war
Robert Espinoza on The CareWorks Project & the Caregiving Economy (opens the original)
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Harry interviews Robert Espinoza, founder of the CareWorks Project, about improving long-term care quality and delivery. Espinoza describes his 16-year career in the sector and argues the U.S. long-term care system was designed as an extension of hospitals, despite most care now occurring at home and people wanting person-centered, dignified support. They discuss affordability, citing annual median costs ranging from about $75,000 for home personal care to $170,000 for a private nursing home roo
New York’s Master Plan for Aging with Greg Olsen (opens the original)
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Harry interviews Greg Olsen, longtime director of the New York State Office for Aging, about preparing for a surge in older adults as baby boomers reach 85. Olsen explains the Office for Aging’s role as the community-based, non-medical long-term care system created under the Older Americans Act, providing services such as meals, transportation, personal care, home modifications, benefits help, and case management to help people remain independent and avoid costly institutional care; Governor Hoc
Professor Israel Doron on UN Rights for Elders & Israel’s Long-Term Care System (opens the original)
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Professor Israel (Issi) Doron, a lawyer and gerontology scholar from the University of Haifa and visiting professor at UMass Boston, describes how an AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly internship in the early 1990s led him into elder law, followed by a PhD in Toronto on elder guardianship and international work promoting a UN human rights convention for older persons. He explains that older persons lack a dedicated UN convention, notes gaps such as limited recognition of age discrimination and a
LogicMark CEO Chia Lin-Simmons on AI-Enabled Medical Alerts (opens the original)
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Chia Lin-Simmons, CEO of LogicMark, describes becoming a “sandwich generation” caregiver after her experience with an embarrassing, imprecise, unattractive medical alert worn by her mother-in-law, motivating her to modernize the category with AI and IoT. Drawing on 30 years in tech (including Harman, Audible, Google, and an AI startup), she explains LogicMark’s shift from reactive fall alerts to more precise multi-sensor detection and predictive, proactive monitoring using longitudinal data, dig
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