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Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead

More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts...
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Priyanka Shah and Diane Ty
Featured 
Report

Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead

More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts...
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Priyanka Shah and Diane Ty

Care support is an essential infrastructure for an aging society. Yet family caregivers are largely unpaid, underrecognized, and insufficiently supported. More than 63 million family caregivers in the United States provide care to aging loved ones and other dependents, often while balancing work, their own health, and financial responsibilities. The Future of Aging advances research, employer engagement, and policy advocacy, with a focus on elder caregiving. This work addresses systemic gaps in policies, benefits, and workplace practices and drives action to ensure caregivers can remain healthy, financially secure, and engaged in both work and society. 

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Recommendations for How Employers Can Support Family Caregivers: Results from an Expert Delphi Consensus Panel

Priyanka Shah and Diane Ty from the Milken Institute are coauthors of this manuscript. 

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Caregiving in the Spotlight

Diane Ty authored this article in the Dialogue Review, a journal published by Duke Corporate Education.

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Beyond Benefits: Building a Workplace That Works for Caregiving Employees

Priyanka Shah spoke on this US News & World Report panel.

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America’s Unseen Workforce: The New Reality of Family Caregiving.

Diane Ty penned this op-ed for USA Today. 

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The Future of Aging: Bright Spots in Policy and Practice

Diane Ty spoke at the Alliance for Health Policy 2025 Signature Series on Aging.

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Paul Irving and The Invisible Workforce: Why Caregiving is a Personal and an Economic Crisis

Paul Irving was featured on this UsAgainstAlzheimer’s BrainStorm podcast episode.

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The State of Caregiving in the Workplace

Priyanka Shah and Diane Ty led this one-hour webinar on their January 2025 caregiving report for USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and its National Caregiver Support Collaborative, partially funded by the Administration for Community Living.

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As the population ages, the U.S. home caregiving system is tipping toward a crisis

Paul Irving was featured on WorkingNation’s Work in Progress podcast discussing the critical role of family caregivers and direct care workers. 

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Who Will Take Care of Mom?

Diane Ty co-authored this article in the Milken Review. 

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Media Mentions

These People Know How to Fix the Caregiving Crisis. Is It Doable?

USA TODAY - Family caregivers need a break. Their seemingly endless care responsibilities leave little time for themselves, leading to a myriad of physical and mental health challenges, stunted career growth, crippling guilt and worries about the future. 

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The Business Case for Supporting Family Caregivers

McKnight's Senior Living: Two recent developments reflect the increasing recognition that many workers have caregiving responsibilities outside of their jobs, and that employers can do something to alleviate the stress related to those responsibilities.

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Employers Could Raise Retention Rates, Productivity by Investing in Caregiving Support, Report Says

GBP: A new report by the Milken Institute shows employers benefit by offering flexible work arrangements, paid leave and financial support to employee caregivers. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge has more.

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Supporting Workers Who Are Family Caregivers Benefits Employers, Too, Report Says

McKnight's Senior Living: Employers looking to improve employee retention, engagement and productivity should consider taking actions to ease the burdens on their workers who are family caregivers, according to a new report from the Milken Institute.

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Major Reports Showcase the Future of Workplace Care

Wellthy: Two landmark publications are redefining workplace excellence through the lens of caregiver support. 

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US News Partners with the Milken Institute and SHRM to Reveal Inaugural Best Companies to Work For: Supporting Family Caregiving Ratings

U.S. News: The new report highlights companies that best support their caregiving employees.

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Building Resilience for Caregivers: How Employers Can Support the Sandwich Generation

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation: Many women want the choice and ability to have careers, be caregivers, and be the “chief financial officer” of their families but balancing these responsibilities can have significant impacts on health and wealth.

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The Future of Aging served as a distribution partner for Bradley Cooper’s documentary Caregiving. The documentary, featuring Senior Advisor Paul Irving, explores the challenges and triumphs of caregiving in America. 

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