I suspect people sneering at this have just had the extreme good fortune of not having to figure out care for aging family members - *so far*. It’s a problem that impacts almost everyone, and women carry most of the burden of giving up careers and earnings to compensate for the lack of support.

E-fucking-normous. Both of my parents have passed in the last few years (dad a year ago on... Friday I think), and concerns circling home care are an absolute core part of things. A lot of times there's a big old gap between Dying Soon and dying so definitively soon that you can get help w/ it

The only true leftism is a $600 check from Joe Biden. Everyone knows this.

And this often ends in elder abuse or neglected people dying alone. This is human tragedy on a massive scale that goes completely unnoticed and unspoken of in our culture.

My partner and I dealt with both parents, a childless widowed aunt each, and now there is still his brother As his trustee I am about to sell the family home - realtors, what fun! Because his care costs have outpaced it's rental income It's been endless

god i hope we get this, otherwise i'm looking down the barrel of being solely responsible for two babies and four elderly people all by myself. the four olds are healthy now but they won't be forever and there's seriously nobody else, only me. there's only one of me

Both sets of my grandparents left my parents (divorced) sizeable amounts of money, but I fully expect most if not all of it to go to their long-term/end of life care. And that's fine! But man, if medicare helped cover it...

My dad's health declined slowly over a decade, and the Irish health system slowly increased the amount of in-home care he got, until the point that we had one person checking in about 4 times per day, plus multiple weekly visits from specialists. It let him stay in his rural home right to the end

Thanks for that. I was the sole caretaker for my mother during her last years & altho I was happy to do what I cld for her, I was also furious at the medical/insurance attitude that an untrained, unskilled solo person in her 60's shld just do everything alone 24/7. For free.

Yes, this is absolutely gendered. See also: "Medicare for all" despite Medicare not covering pregnancy and childbirth (at least at that time).

My uncle got early onset dementia and my aunt had to cash out all retirement accounts and spent down all their savings . She was considering divorcing him so he would qualify for Medicaid but he died first. The only other option was selling the house. He was 63