bottlenecksBottleneck
Unpaid care as the hidden delivery system
Most day-to-day dementia care is unpaid. Medicines and scans fail in practice if one person is carrying every task alone.
Overview
Respite, training, and a named navigator are delivery infrastructure. They are often treated as extras.
criticalaccess delivery1 ideas to fix it
Scale of the problem
Root causes
- Care work is unpaid and gendered.
- Benefits are hard to find.
- Clinics are organised around encounters, not households.
Current efforts
- Care-navigation models.
- Carer assessments in some health systems.
Success criteria
A care plan names backup people and respite before crisis.
Similar pages
not linked directly; found by shared links- DiagnosisDementia (umbrella)
Shares Dementia care navigation and the tag dementia-atlas.
- DiagnosisAlzheimer’s disease
Shares Make carer outcomes a primary trial endpoint and the tag dementia-atlas.