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  • Love Is Not the Same as Unlimited Skilled Labor: With Guest Laura Mauldin

    Love Is Not the Same as Unlimited Skilled Labor: With Guest Laura Mauldin
    2026/04/30
    Welcome back to the relaunch of Love Doesn't Pay the Bills: Highlighting the Value of Care Work!

    Guest Laura Mauldin is the author of "In Sickness and In Health", about America's failure to properly support citizens who are chronically ill or disabled, instead relying on the unpaid labor of spouses.
    Laura interviews care recipient and caregiver dyads who are romantic partners.

    Laura shares some of her own experience caregiving for a spouse. We discuss the common framing of 'love' to obligate people to extensive care labor, some of the harms this obligation causes as well as common themes Laura noticed in her interviews.
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    34 分
  • Start Small: With Guest Suzanne Ricklin

    Start Small: With Guest Suzanne Ricklin
    2025/04/17
    Financial impact can be one of the most difficult aspects of being a family caregiver. Suzanne Ricklin joins us to discuss the particular impact of caregiving on Women investors, and encourages each of us to start small because saving even a little bit can make an impact on our future financial situation. She talks about hiring a financial advisor and why women have particular advising needs.

    Suzanne Ricklin serves as vice president, Retention & Sales for Nationwide’sRetirement Solutions Distribution team. She is responsible for the retention andgrowth of our existing government and corporate retirement clients incorporatinga strategic account management approach across all plan types. She also hasresponsibility for our Consultant Relations team that is focused on driving brandawareness of Nationwide’s unique value proposition in the marketplace.

    The retention teams across corporate and government, the large custom planteam, the Retirement Resource Group and the Consultant Relations team reportto Suzanne. Her teams are responsible for increasing the expansion ofNationwide solutions in strategic alignment with client goals and objectives.The retention teams across corporate and government, the large custom planteam, the Retirement Resource Group and the Consultant Relations team reportto Suzanne. Her teams are responsible for increasing the expansion ofNationwide solutions in strategic alignment with client goals and objectives.

    Read the full article "More than Two-Thirds of Women Investors' Careers Impacted by Caregiving Responsibilities" by Nationwide

    Find Nationwide's additional resources for investing here

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    22 分
  • Everybody Cares: With Guest Jay Chaudry

    Everybody Cares: With Guest Jay Chaudry
    2025/04/03
    Jay Chaudry and Lisa get philosophical about care. We acknowledge the multi-faceted nature of care as a main feature of the human experience. Beyond narratives that place care firmly on one side or the other of various binary descriptions, care is woven in many ways throughout our lives. What does this have to do with public policy? How might we change our advocacy if we view care as an important, key part of our humanity?

    Read Jay's full article, "Beyond False Binaries in Care
    New perspectives on the most fundamental of human activities" here: https://open.substack.com/pub/favorablethrivingconditions/p/beyond-false-binaries-in-care?r=mras5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

    Jay Chaudhary has the unique experience of simultaneously creating policy for and executing a successful state behavioral health strategy. During his five year tenure as Director of the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction and Chair of the Indiana Behavioral Health Commission, Jay led a significant overhaul of Indiana’s behavioral health system, resulting in a significant jump in the state’s overall mental health rankings.
    Jay has recently begun a new journey as Senior Fellow for Mental Health and Wellness at the Sagamore Institute, an Indianapolis, Indiana based research institution. Jay’s work at Sagamore focuses on continued advocacy for equitable behavioral health care access and exploration of strategies for improving overall community well-being.
    Jay is an Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow and has received a number of accolades for his work, including being named a “20 Under 40” State Government Leader from the Council of State Governments and a ”Champion of Justice” by the Indiana Judges Association.


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    28 分
  • What Would It Mean to Have Work Requirements Attached to Medicaid: With Guest Mary-Beth Malcarney

    What Would It Mean to Have Work Requirements Attached to Medicaid: With Guest Mary-Beth Malcarney
    2025/03/27
    We've talked a lot recently about possible cuts to Medicaid. One possible way de facto cuts could be implemented is work requirements. Mary-Beth Malcarney joins us to talk all about how such requirements would impact people who currently use Medicaid, family caregivers, and in fact, everyone in the US, including those using private insurance. Caregivers will understand that sometimes, while we may qualify for a formal program, doing the administrative legwork to receive it might be difficult to impossible. How does one prove they are a family caregiver if that is an exception, anyway?

    Read the full Families USA fact sheet on Medicaid work reporting requirements here:
    https://familiesusa.org/resources/medicaid-work-reporting-requirements-bureaucratic-burdens-that-threaten-working-families-providers-and-local-economies/

    The Families USA health action resource page is here, with lots of information about how to make your own Medicaid story known to your legislators: https://familiesusa.org/healthactionresources/

    Mary-Beth Malcarney is the Senior Advisor on Medicaid Policy at Families USA. She previously lead a project to advise the Social Security Administration on updating disability policies as they relate to the health of transgender and gender diverse people. She also worked as an assistant research professor at at The George Washington University (GWU).






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    26 分
  • What Caregivers Can Do to Preserve and Protect Services for People With Disabilities: With Guest Casey Doherty

    What Caregivers Can Do to Preserve and Protect Services for People With Disabilities: With Guest Casey Doherty
    2025/03/20
    There are threats to Medicaid among many other services, and today we talk about how to help preserve access to public services for disability related support needs that help both caregivers and people with disabilities. There are various approaches each individual can take to make an impact on public services. If we each do what we can, where we are with the resources we have, people with disabilities will receive the formal public support they need.

    Casey Doherty is the policy analyst for the Disability Justice Initiative at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Doherty served as a paralegal specialist at the Federal Trade Commission and as fellowship alumni liaison at Partners for Youth with Disabilities, where she facilitated a national fellowship program for young people with disabilities. Doherty holds bachelor’s degrees in government and American studies from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in disability studies from the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies. She is a doctoral student studying special education and disability studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

    Casey's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseydoherty1/

    The article Casey co-authored is here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-the-disability-community-can-fight-back-in-2025/

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    31 分
  • The 600 Billion Dollar Value of Unpaid Care Work: With Guest Susan Reinhard

    The 600 Billion Dollar Value of Unpaid Care Work: With Guest Susan Reinhard
    2025/03/13
    What is the care provided by family caregivers financially worth? We discuss the value of unpaid care in America, how this value is beginning to be recognized or properly supported and what listeners can do to help make sure it is.

    "Susan C. Reinhard is the chief strategist emeritus for the Center to
    Champion Nursing in America, a national resource center created to
    ensure that America has the highly skilled nurses it needs to provide care
    in the future. Previously, she was a senior vice president at AARP, directing
    its Public Policy Institute (PPI), AARP’s focal point for public policy research
    and analysis at the state, federal, and international levels. She also led
    PPI’s Family Caregiving Initiatives."

    The ABC article which quoted Reinhard is here:https://abcnews.go.com/US/invisible-crisis-americas-caregivers-600-billion-unpaid-cost/story?id=116129335#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere%20are%2048%20million%20family,%2C%E2%80%9D%20Reinhard%20told%20ABC%20News.

    More about Reinhard: https://campaignforaction.org/team-member/susan-c-reinhard/
    or https://blog.aarp.org/author/susan-reinhard



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    36 分
  • We Need to Keep Medicaid Strong for care recipients and families: With Guest Nicole Jorwic

    We Need to Keep Medicaid Strong for care recipients and families: With Guest Nicole Jorwic
    2025/03/06
    With recent threats to Medicaid funding, we discuss why Medicaid is important to care in the United States, what it is and what cutting funds might mean.
    • “More than 72 million people have health insurance through Medicaid – that’s more than one in five Americans. It covers children, senior citizens, people with disabilities, parents and adults without dependents. In addition, more than 7.2 million children are enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, because their families’ incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid.

    • Medicaid provides health insurance for about two in five children and also covers about 40% of all births, according to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. It also covers more than 60% of nursing home residents and nearly 30% of non-elderly adults with mental illness, as well as about one in three people with disabilities. Plus, it pays for substance abuse treatment.”-CNN

    Nicole Jorwic is the Chief of Campaigns and Advocacy at Caring Across Generations. She is a family caregiver, having a brother with significant disabilities, and watched her parents navigate care for her grandparents. These experiences led Nicole to passionately advocate for a better experience for everyone. She is not afraid to share her viewpoints and positions. More information about Nicole and Caring Across Generations is here: https://caringacross.org/about/team/

    Learn more about the difference between Medicaid and Medicare here: https://www.hhs.gov/answers/medicare-and-medicaid/what-is-the-difference-between-medicare-
    medicaid/index.html

    Read the full story quoted from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/politics/medicaid-proposed-cuts-what-matters/index.html

    Read about the popularity of Medicaid here: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-public-weighs-health-care-spending-and-other-priorities-for-incoming-administration/

    Find out what Medicaid is called in your state: https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip-program-names/

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    25 分
  • We Built a Fabulous Care Team Around Us: With guest Mike George

    We Built a Fabulous Care Team Around Us: With guest Mike George
    2025/02/20
    Mike George helps families rewrite their caregiving story – from one of sacrifice and exhaustion to one of joy, strength and resilience. A family caregiver himself for 3 decades, Mike intimately understands the burdens of supporting the primary care of a loved one. But he also knows the tremendous fulfillment it can bring. This lived experience led him to create The Soaring Families WayTM, a proven method that can be every family’s reliable companion on their journey to joy. He is a speaker, author, and co-founder of Soaring Families whose mission is to redefine caregiving for families.

    Mike share's his story of care for his son, how he and his wife created a bigger team of caregivers around them and teach others to do so.

    Find more about Soaring Families and The Pink Book here: https://www.soaringfamilies.com/
    Mike welcomes you to email him directly: mike@soaringfamilies.com

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    38 分