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North Carolina bill would set $18-to-$24 wage floors for direct-care workers
House Bill 1045 would set occupation-specific minimums from $18 an hour for home care aides to $24 for licensed practical nurses, starting January 2028 if approved.
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Kentucky families rally as 4% Medicaid waiver cut nears its Aug. 1 start
About 100 families, caregivers and providers rallied in Frankfort against a 4% Medicaid waiver reimbursement cut set for Aug. 1, as nearly 19,000 Kentuckians wait for waiver slots.
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HHS watchdog opens review of Medicare hospice payments in nursing homes
A new HHS Inspector General review will estimate savings from reducing the hospice routine home care rate, which covers personal care that nursing homes are already required to provide.
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DHS finalizes public charge rule effective Sept. 18
The rule drops the 2022 seven-factor test for a totality-of-circumstances review that weighs receipt of means-tested benefits against an immigrant's legal status.
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Kentucky cuts Medicaid waiver payments 4% starting Aug. 1
A June 8 letter told providers reimbursement drops next month, hitting the home and community-based waivers nearly 19,000 Kentuckians are already waiting on.
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THC-CBD formulation cut agitation in late-stage dementia trial
The LiBBY trial, presented July 14 in London, found a purified THC and CBD oil suspension significantly reduced agitation in 120 hospice-eligible dementia patients.
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Springfield Hospital will close Vermont adult day program Sept. 30
The program serves 42 clients and is one of only 10 adult day services in Vermont. The hospital cited financial challenges and underutilization since the pandemic.
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Nurse threatens court fight over Cattaraugus County home care closure
Jessica Shaffer told county lawmakers she may sue over the closure of the health department's home care program, which has shrunk from 225 patients in November to 88 in June.
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Washington high court ends sub-minimum-wage exemption for live-in caregivers
The state Supreme Court called the decades-old carve-out unconstitutional, extending wage, overtime, and sick-leave protections to adult family home staff.
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Newsom defends paying for housing and food with Medicaid as GOP calls it fraud
California's whole-person Medi-Cal spending is now the center of a Washington fight over what Medicaid should cover.
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Trial finds online therapy lowers anxiety and depression in dementia carers
A UEA-led randomized trial of 496 English family carers reports sustained mental-health gains from a home-based digital platform.
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Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown hits small home-care agencies
The state is revalidating 5,600 'high-risk' providers and freezing payments; some clients have lost home care or been hospitalized.
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Federally funded trial tests an app for the ICU's 'hidden patients'
Case Western's REFRAME will enroll 387 ICU surrogate decision-makers to test whether cognitive reappraisal eases depression and regret.
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Federal policy converges on a fragile direct care workforce
Medicaid cuts, a wage-rule rollback, and stripped immigrant protections converge on home care as dementia costs climb.
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Minnesota's Medicaid provider crackdown reaches federal court
A state revalidation and payment-freeze drive lands on small home care agencies as CMS presses the model nationally.
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Federal policy changes converge on the direct care workforce
A KFF analysis, a proposed wage rollback, and a Supreme Court TPS ruling all press on the workers who provide U.S. long-term care.
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Minnesota's high-risk Medicaid revalidation lands in federal court
The state's off-cycle screening of 5,600 providers now runs alongside a home care agency's due process fight over a frozen payment.
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England Asks the Public Who Should Pay for Elder Care
Baroness Casey's commission calls England's social-care system 'impossible' and will ask the public who should receive care and how to pay for it.
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CMS Pays Home Health More, and Moves to Revoke Faster
The 2027 home-health rule offers a $420 million raise, the first since 2022, bundled with authority to make all Medicare enrollment revocations retroactive.
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The Home-Care Workforce Walks Out as Its Wage Floor Is Cut
450 Mass General Brigham clinicians begin the state's largest healthcare strike as a federal rule moves to cut wage protections for 3 million home-care workers.
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The Rule Decides Who Counts as Too Sick to Work
Ms. Magazine argues the administration is narrowing Medicaid's 'medically frail' exemption beyond what Congress wrote, hitting sick and disabled enrollees first.
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Mapping the Slide From Worry to Overwhelm
A Virginia Tech study traces the dementia caregiver's stress cascade from a passing worry to a crushing burden, putting a mechanism under the survey numbers.
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Ohio Writes a Home-Care Fraud Crackdown Into Law
A bipartisan Medicaid home-health fraud bill, prompted by a Daily Wire investigation, clears both chambers and heads to Governor DeWine.
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Naming the Emotional Weight of the Sandwich Generation
A psychologist reframes the midlife care squeeze as emotional labor and parentification, and names self-care and policy change as the way through.
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You Cannot Outsave the Care Bill
Even the Dutch lean on family for elder care, factree argues, while Best Version Media shows a few years of paid help can erase decades of a family's savings.
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Social Security's Own Trustees Now Score a 22% Cut for 2032
The 2026 trustees report projects a benefit cut for 70 million recipients, and the shortfall grew because the trustees cut their immigration forecast.
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Twelve Years, $10,000 a Month, One Daughter's Math
Jessica Guthrie left a VP job to care for her mother with early-onset Alzheimer's; twelve years on, her math is also an employer's retention problem.
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Congress Cut Medicaid. Guess Who Picks Up the Tab.
The sandwich generation was already stretched. Federal policy just made it worse.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Are Coming. Caregivers Are the Collateral.
New rules demand work to keep Medicaid — but caring for a disabled child or aging parent doesn't count the way you'd think.
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The VA Cut 30,000 Jobs. Now It Says It's Hiring.
Veterans' caregivers are caught between a staffing purge and a promise that the worst is over. The data says otherwise.
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Texas Has a 10-Year Wait for Disability Services. A Hotline Won't Fix That.
A proposed national IDD caregiver hotline meets a Medicaid system where families wait a decade for help that may never arrive.
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America Needs Millions More Caregivers. It Has No Plan to Find Them.
The elderly population is surging, nurses are burning out, and states are refusing to raise home care wages. The math is brutal.
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Connecticut Passed a Caregiver Tax Credit. Congress Is Still Talking.
While federal bills stall in committee, Hartford slipped a caregiver tax credit into its budget — and AARP is cheering.
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Dingell's Home Care Bills Have Industry Backing. They Still Need Money.
PHI endorsed two landmark bills to expand home care access. LeadingAge is asking the hard question: who pays?
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The Fed Counted the Caregivers. The Math Doesn't Work.
A Kansas City Fed analysis confirms the care workforce can't keep up with aging-driven demand. Child care staffing is no better.
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Millennial Daughters Are Draining Their Savings for Boomer Parents
The sandwich generation isn't just stressed — it's going broke. And the oldest caregivers can't afford to stop working either.
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One in Four of Your Employees Is a Caregiver. Most Haven't Told You.
Employers are finally getting checklists, data, and a business case for supporting caregiving workers.
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The Social Security Fix Caregivers Actually Need Is Finally on the Table
A new bill would credit caregiving years toward Social Security benefits. It could reshape retirement for millions.
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Burnout Isn't a Feeling. It's a Design Flaw.
New research and first-person accounts converge on one point: caregiver burnout is structural, not personal.
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Congress Just Introduced More Care Bills in Two Weeks Than Most Sessions See in a Year
A legislative flood is remaking the care economy debate — but volume alone doesn't mean victory.
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