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As America’s Baby Boomers rapidly age into their senior years, Caring Across Generations, a national movement of families, caregivers, people with disabilities and aging Americans working to transform the way America cares, is encouraged to see caregiving recognized as an issue of concern by policymakers, including the country’s 2016 presidential candidates.

At Caring Across Generations, we support home care workers in the Fight for $15 movement because quality care requires quality jobs. Recognizing the value of care, and matching wages to the value of the work caregivers do, is a vital first step toward creating a better system for all.

Caring Across Generations co-director Ai-jen Poo has been named a "2015 Influencer in Aging" by Next Avenue

What do caregivers need most? Read what our members told us, in honor of National Family Caregivers Month.

On a recent Saturday morning in Hawaii, care workers, seniors, community members, leaders and organizers gathered together for a summit on the importance of Hawaii's game-changing proposal to expand access to long-term care to everyone in the state.

Join us for our #CaregiversMonth Twitter chat on Thursday, November 12.

Most employers of home care workers will no longer be able to claim the companionship exemption and must also pay for time traveled between work shifts for two different consumers.

What does it take to make a national holiday? Three years ago, we set an ambitious goal to make Grandparents Day a recognized holiday celebrated with intergenerational storytelling. This past Sunday, we broke through.

Securing Basic Protections for Home Care Workers Is Crucial to Strengthening Critical, Growing Workforce

Social Security is turning 80 on Friday, August 14th! To celebrate this important anniversary, Caring Across Generations and our partners are holding a Twitterstorm on Friday to highlight the critical need to protect and expand Social Security for today’s families — and we hope you can join us.

A new media release from our partners at the North Carolina Justice Center: New report says quality caregiver wages are critical for quality care given to seniors.

Have you been wanting to get involved with Caring Across Generations? Now’s your chance! Join our national member call on Tuesday, August 11, and hear more about how you can plug into our campaign.

Medicare and Medicaid are turning 50 on Thursday, July 30th! And to mark this important anniversary, Caring Across Generations and our partners will be holding a Twitter storm all day to share how these programs have supported millions of seniors and people with disabilities, and why we need to build on their success as we meet the challenges facing 21st-century families.

Last Monday, hundreds gathered at the White House Conference on Aging to address how we support aging Americans in the coming decade.

Caring Across Generations Co­-Founder Ai­-jen Poo Calls on Nation to Support Caregivers at White House Conference on Aging

Caregiving options should be flexible and affordable, invest in good quality jobs, and provide high quality, culturally competent care.

On Monday, July 13th, the White House will be hosting its once-a-decade Conference on Aging, an event that brings together policymakers, health experts, older Americans, caregivers, families, and activists to discuss what we need to do to support our country’s seniors.

As DOL moves to update federal overtime rules, two million home care workers continue to be excluded from minimum wage and overtime.

We have great news! Wednesday, June 23rd, Governor Brown signed California’s new budget, restoring hours cut from in-home care services that we’ve been asking him to reinstate for years.

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the Older Americans Act, landmark legislation passed on July 14, 1965 to help older Americans stay in their homes and communities as they age.

With this ruling, home care workers around the country may have to wait even longer for basic labor protections that could lift them out of poverty. States should not wait until this dispute is resolved.

Caring Across Generations applauds President Obama for taking a tremendous step forward for securing the eldercare workforce we need for a stronger economy and more secure future. This action is especially critical for the wellbeing of older Americans and people with disabilities – and for the millions of aging Baby Boomers who will need care in the coming years.

We don't hear much about kids who are caregivers. The media focuses on the typical caregiver: a woman in her forties or fifties, working full-time, and caring for mom or dad. The hidden carers are the youth.

Most people think of paid leave in the context of new parents who want to spend time with their newborn. But there’s another group of working people who need the support of paid family leave — and that’s caregivers.

On Saturday, October 18, Caring Across Generations and our partners across the country held a nation-wide Care Canvass. In more than a dozen cities, hundreds of home care workers and seniors talked to thousands of voters about the need to strengthen our home care and long-term care systems, as well as support home care workers in their call for fair wages.