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Understanding caregiving, migration, and long-term well-being begins with a simple but often overlooked question:

But what happens to caregivers over time?

This work examines how caregiving shapes financial security, health outcomes, and the conditions under which people grow older, especially for those whose labor sustains care systems yet remains largely unrecognized.

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What Happens to Caregivers as They Age?

A research-driven analysis of how caregiving shapes long-term financial, health, and aging outcomes, and exposes gaps between care work and aging systems.

Caregiver Futures Initiative (CFI) focuses on caregiving, workforce systems, and aging as a growing area of research and practice, building on a broader agenda examining how systems of governance and power shape life trajectories and long term inequality.

What we do…

Studying caregiver life trajectories

Identifying structural gaps in workforce and aging systems

Exploring practical pathways for equitable aging

Researching inequality across systems | Designing pathways toward more equitable futures