Over the course of our lives, all of us will both receive and give care.
And that care comes in many forms—as children needing the support of parents and family, partners supporting one another through disability and aging, disabled people receiving support from direct care workers, and disabled adult children supporting aging parents.
While care is fundamental and essential to how we live, our nation’s lack of caregiving supports makes dignified care difficult to access and unsustainable for people to provide.
Creating a world where older adults and disabled people can access quality and affordable care in their homes and communities, and where caregivers and care workers are supported and well-compensated, is core to advancing gender justice and centers the needs of disabled people and women of color.
“Supporting Home- and Community-Based Care Advances Gender Justice” examines how disabled people and older adults, their family caregivers, and direct care workers are harmed by our lack of care infrastructure and demonstrates how women and women of color—as low and middle-income disabled people, undervalued workers, and unsupported caregivers—can be uplifted through robust investments in home- and community-based care.