Unbreakable Link between Adequately-Funded Community-Based LTSS and Good Caregiving to Prevent Tragedies and Crimes

  The excellent news aggregator crooksandliars.com aggregated a study about cost of caregiving below with original links.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/emotional-toll-caregiving-takes-person

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2491683

Source: Wolff J, Spillman B, Freedman V, et al. A National Profile of Family and Unpaid Caregivers Who Assist Older Adults With Health Care Activities. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2016.

 

  Economic desperation of lack of a sustainable income, for more and more people having to be unpaid caregivers, leads to tragedies of suicide and crimes of murder and accessory to murder.  The great caregivers people read about on social media or corporate-owned news media are more exceptions people should aspire to emulate.  However, emulation or aspirational models of people as 'heroes' or 'superheroes' (inspiration porn) are a bad basis for public policy.  

  Viewing individual problems as individual manifestations of systemic failures is better public policy.  Changing the 'system' AKA public sector budgeted funding streams, as financial aid for the growing number of people who can't pay the costs of inclusion in money or time, can have faster positive effects on the lives of more individuals.  

  To understand the above 'point' in musical form read the lyrics to "Ain't No Such Thing as Superman" by the late Gil Scott-Heron.  


  Original lyrics are posted here

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gilscottheron/aintnosuchthingassuperman.html


  The song "(Wish I could fly like) Superman" by The Kinks, as well as other songs on the album the song was originally released on entitled "Low Budget,"  makes the same 'point' in song about the flaws of 'inspiration porn' as a basis for equally flawed neoliberal/neoclassical (pre-Keynesian) fiscal and neoconservative national security (defense) and immigration policies.  

  Link to buy the whole Kinks album "Low Budget" and individual songs here:  

 
 "(Wish I could fly like) Superman" can also be played here

  People wish they were 'superheroes' when their limited human capabilities are becoming stretched to their limits.  Those limits are more static (unchangeable) than the authors of 'inspiration porn' would have their readers believe.