Elder Care on the Brink

The cost of in-home elder care is soaring at a frightening pace, rising over three times faster than overall inflation, leaving families caught in a heartbreaking dilemma. As the demand swells with the aging baby boomer population, a shrinking workforce driven by harsh immigration crackdowns and slashed Medicaid funding is forcing caregivers — many of whom are immigrants — out of the job market. The result? Care agencies ramp up prices, leaving many families to choose between costly institutions or sacrificing their own work hours to provide care. This alarming trend reveals a ticking time bomb for elder care, laid bare by the intersection of demographic shifts and divisive immigration policies that threaten to unravel the support system for vulnerable seniors at home. More