Caregiving

Across the country, people are becoming unexpected caregivers of children whose parents have become addicted to opioids. In most states, they're doing it with little to no help at all.

• By James McCandless

If care jobs become the last human jobs, could that encourage employers and policymakers to recognize and value them as the economically critical work that they are?

• By Elizabeth Weingarten

Recording staff in nursing homes and special education classrooms may dodge the roots of the problem.

• By Elena Gooray

We’ve been slow to mobilize against the growing Alzheimer’s epidemic. Perhaps that’s because women are shouldering most of the burden.

• By Maya Dusenbery

If Boomers shift from executive jobs to caregiving, will Millennials get their baby boom?

• By Alana Massey