Saturday May 31, 2025

• 2:10 PM – 3:25 PM

  Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion: Caregiving Documentary

  • Moderator
    • 
      Saundra Jain MA, PsyD, LPC
  • Speaker
    • 
      Chance Browning MA
    • 
      Chrisa Hickey
    • 
      Tom Chiodo

  • Room
    • Octavius 11

  DOCUMENTARY SUMMARY: According to recent studies*, in addition to 5 million paid caregivers nationally, it is estimated that between 53 million to 105.6 million U.S. adults provide unpaid caregiving for ill, aging, or disabled family members and friends. In addition, an estimated 5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are direct caregivers. As caregiving in America faces the twin pressures of an aging baby boomer generation and rising life expectancy, the United States’ long-term care system threatens to tip into crisis. The film will personalize this urgent national issue through stories from caregivers and interviews with experts as they fight to give caregivers the security and support they provide for so many others. The project also includes a robust national engagement campaign. The feature-length documentary and accompanying short films will examine caregiving from multiple perspectives: the creation and evolution of the care system; the social dynamics that shape our approach to caregiving today and the future possibilities; the lives of caregivers and their relationships with those in their care; the interpersonal and economic pressures faced by caregivers; and the broader societal context in which caregiving operates on the margins, yet affects everyone. *Statistics sourced from AARP, the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), RAND, PHI and Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative (CYRC) via the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY)

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