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Support, guidance, and resources — when you need them

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We're featured in @ForbesWomen with 11 other startups transforming the care economy.

“12 Startups Proving Motherhood Over 40 Is a Market Advantage” highlights a truth we live every day: caregiving is changing.

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Before GiveCare surfaces a caregiver support program, someone checks it.

428 programs tracked. 269 fully source-verified. 159 stay labeled partial and 26 flagged stale until they clear.

No recommendation ships before that.

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A health tool can collect taps and sessions without helping someone do the work it was built for. For caregivers, measure the usable next step, not the app habit.

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A health tool can collect taps and sessions without helping someone do the work it was built for. For caregivers, measure the usable next step, not the app habit.

https://t.co/QrmC1LGqIU

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A dementia trial reported lower agitation with THC + CBD. The 120-person LiBBY study compared it with placebo in hospice-eligible participants. A finding to follow, not care guidance.

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Washington HB 2225 sets a floor for companion AI: recurring disclosure, minor protections, self-harm protocols, and limits on manipulative engagement.

Caregiving AI needs those controls, plus rules for memory, correction, and failed handoffs.

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GiveCare participated in @CHAI_nonprofit’s AI Mental Health Working Group, which released the Best Practice Guideand Testing & Evaluation Framework for consumer-facing wellness and mental health applications.

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When coverage lapses in the mail, families do the damage control.

Caregiver support has to turn notices, deadlines, and benefit changes into a trusted handoff: what changed, what to check, what to document, and when human review belongs.

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Fraud enforcement matters. So does precision.

Ohio’s Medicaid crackdown shows the risk: agency-level fraud and authorized family care are not the same problem.

Accountability should not erase care families are holding together.

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The week the 'fraud' framing met a statute.

Read today's Pulse → https://t.co/Ms6CewzBpz

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Ohio Tests Whether 'Fraud' Becomes a Statute

RFK's 'rife with fraud' line about Medicaid family-caregiver pay is now a draft bill in Ohio, and disabled residents are pushing back.

https://t.co/ilVD37ZSmI

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Care policy keeps moving in one direction: the work lands at home.

This week’s Pulse tracks Canada’s paused care-worker pathway, a Senate respite proposal, and the marital strain of caring up and down at once.

Read the issue: https://t.co/Ms6CewzBpz

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The Trillion Dollars That Never Reaches a Pension

Unpaid care earns no Social Security credit. Two new pieces split on whether the fix is crediting that work or naming who profits from leaving it unsolved.

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The Care Worker Pipeline Closes One Door, Proposes Another

Canada paused its home care worker immigration pilots through 2027, while a US policy outline floats a dedicated elder care visa.

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The Help That Works Almost Never Arrives

Penn LDI says coaching and coordination improve outcomes, yet most caregivers never receive them. First-person accounts show what that absence costs.

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West Virginia and Ohio Put a Price on Women's Care

West Virginia counts 375,000 caregivers, Ohio's are near burnout, and one Youngstown woman gave forty years before anyone asked how she was.

https://t.co/4cuaqrX84i

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Today’s Pulse tracks the bill families are already paying:

• WV: 375,000 caregivers, $3B unpaid care
• CO: dementia care, $1.1M vs $33,614/year
• Senior care erasing middle-class wealth

Same pattern: the system sends the bill home.

https://t.co/Ms6CewzBpz

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West Virginia Puts a Number on the Caregiving Women Do for Free

375,000 West Virginians — most of them women — provide $3 billion in unpaid care a year, as a federal push presses more women back toward it.

https://t.co/4cuaqrX84i

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PBS Names the 'Daughterhood Penalty'

Kelli María Korducki tells Amanpour and Company what the elder care burden costs women — financially, professionally, and personally.

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Medicaid Promises Home Care. Getting It Is Another Story.

A JAMA study maps the bureaucratic maze between Medicaid eligibility and actual home care, while Maryland families brace for summer service cuts.

https://t.co/W4Ka5r3772

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PNAS: Immigration Enforcement Is Reshaping Who Cares for America's Children

A peer-reviewed study finds ICE activity pushed childcare from regulated centers to private households. Native-born workers didn't fill the gap.

https://t.co/qoWocRwwuo