Family caregivers are seeking to make their plight a 2024 campaign issue after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the lack of support for the more than 53 million people who provide unpaid care to parents, spouses, friends and disabled children.
Exhausted from shortages of workers who help care for people who need it and the rising costs of caregiving, advocates argue caregivers could become a powerful voting bloc in next year’s elections.
“The pandemic laid bare the fact that this country doesn’t have a caregiver infrastructure,” said Nicole Jorwic, chief of advocacy and campaigns for Caring Across Generations.
