HONOLULU (KHON2) — A new scorecard assessed the urgency of local caregiving needs and categorized all 50 states. The study is called “America’s Unseen Workforce: The State of Family Caregiving.”
Conducted by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the study found nearly half the nation is on the brink of a caregiving emergency.
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Four categories are listed: well-supported, safe for now, high-risk and critical. The study found Hawaii was “high-risk,” which means the situation requires prompt attention.
“The study basically tells us what we’ve known for Hawaii’s demographics. You know, Baby Boomers are getting older and to the age where many of them need caregiving,” said State Director of AARP Hawaii, Keali’i Lopez…