TY - THES T1 - Care Work in the Woodwork: Medicaid Home Care and Family Caregivers’ Health T2 - Social & Behavioral Sciences Y1 - 2021 A1 - Unger, Emily KW - caregiver KW - health KW - home care KW - Medicaid AB - Family caregivers provide the majority of eldercare in the United States, yet little is known about how eldercare policy affects their health. For several decades, research has shown that family caregivers experience emotional, physical, and financial strain that is associated with worse mental and physical health. These harms are particularly severe for women, who are overrepresented among family caregivers, provide more hours of more intensive care, and experience worse associated declines in health. Simultaneously, U.S. eldercare policy has undergone enormous change since the 1980s, as states have shifted Medicaid long-term care spending from nursing homes to home care services. These policy changes have restructured the social, political, and economic systems that shape the realities of family caregiving. However, this dissertation is the first work to investigate how Medicaid home care affects family caregivers’ health. JF - Social & Behavioral Sciences PB - Harvard University CY - Cambridge, MA VL - Ph.D. UR - https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37370225 ER -