About Pulse
Where separate care fields meet.
Research, policy, workforce, business and culture each tell part of what is happening in care. They rarely talk to each other. Pulse is a short daily brief that reads them together when the sources support the link.
A second story makes the issue only if it changes what the first one means for caregivers. On some days, one verified change is enough.
Pulse is published by GiveCare, which builds support for family caregivers.
Why it exists
Caregiving runs through public policy, labor markets, disability access, child care, aging, money, housing and health systems. Most coverage follows one of those beats at a time. Pulse puts the consequence for families in one place, for the people who run and buy care programs.
Each issue leads with what changed for people who give or receive care: a benefit, a deadline, a paycheck, a waitlist, a shift, a form, a handoff or a household decision. When the fields pull in different directions, that change sets the frame.
How it works
Each morning Pulse searches recent public material across the five fields and saves the primary sources. Then it picks a pairing for the day, and the writer works from it. Earlier Pulse coverage is used only to avoid repeats. It is never a source.
Every sentence cites numbered sentences from its sources. Code and a separate check reject any claim the cited text does not support. If an issue fails those checks, it does not publish.
Listen
The podcast is the same edition, written for the ear. It runs up to five minutes and uses the same sources. After the GiveCare Pulse intro, the reporting runs as one brief, and every spoken sentence passes the same source check as the web edition.
Contact
Questions or feedback: ali@givecareapp.com
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