·Pulse issue · June 8, 2026
This week legislatures and researchers attached statutes and hard numbers to unpaid family care, from Ohio's move to bar Medicaid pay for relatives to Britain's £100 billion eldercare load.
Ohio moves to ban Medicaid pay for family caregivers, Britain prices its sandwich-carer load at £100 billion, a vendor survey sells AI against the burnout it counts, and researchers project the caregiver shortfall through 2040.
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Questions this issue answered
- What would Ohio's proposed Medicaid ban cost the families who provide paid personal care today?
- Who profits from publishing caregiver burnout rates?
- Can a national hotline reach isolation that paid hours and respite have not?
- How large is the projected family-caregiver shortfall through 2040?
Briefs in this issue
Ohio Moves to End Medicaid Pay for Family Caregivers
Disabled Ohioans testified June 8 against HB795, which would make Ohio the first state to bar Medicaid payment to relatives who provide personal care.
PolicyWorkforceDisabilityChild CareElder Care
Britain Puts a Price on the Sandwich Squeeze
GB News pegged family eldercare at more than £100 billion a year; The Independent profiled one of the U.K.'s 1.4 million sandwich carers inside that figure.
PolicyCultureElder CareChild Care
The Vendors Counting Caregiver Burnout Are Selling the Cure
A LogicMark survey headlines 90% caregiver burnout and frames AI monitoring as the fix, the product class LogicMark sells.
ResearchCultureElder CareMental HealthGeneral
A National Caregiver Hotline Heads to Congress
New federal legislation would create the country's first dedicated support line for caregivers of people with developmental disabilities.
PolicyElder CareDisabilityChild Care
Modeling the Caregiver Shortfall Through 2040
A new study pairs aging-survey data with kinship projections to size the coming family-care gap, two ways.
ResearchBusinessElder CareChild CareDisability
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