Care Futures - Who Cares for the Caregivers

Who cares for the caregivers? A vision of caregiving as the foundation of a sustainable future.

By Mark Fukae - Director of Advocacy - Professionals Who Care

At Professionals Who Care, we recognize that caregiving is not a side issue - it is the infrastructure that sustains families, workplaces, and communities. Yet caregivers themselves often remain invisible in policy and practice.

In our latest feature, Care Futures: Who Cares for the Caregivers, Mark Fukae - volunteer lobbyist, Director of Advocacy - Professionals Who Care, and founder of CASI - shares his personal story of caring for his 93‑year‑old mother with dementia while navigating workplace return‑to‑office mandates. His experience highlights the systemic gaps facing unpaid family caregivers, employee caregivers, sandwich generation caregivers, and high‑intensity caregivers.

This article, published on The Revenue Neutral Caregiver Substack, explores how caregiving must be reframed as infrastructure and introduces two groundbreaking frameworks: the Universal Care Continuum Model and the Universal Caregiver Bill of Rights.

👉 Read the full article on The Revenue Neutral Caregiver: Care Futures - Who Cares for the Caregivers

References

1. AARP. Caregiving in the United States 2020.

2. National Academy of Sciences. Families Caring for an Aging America. (2021)

3. Pew Research Center. Sandwich Generation Caregivers. (2022)

4. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health & Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. America’s Unseen Workforce. (2024)

5. Universal Care Continuum Model: A Framework for Economic and Social Transformation. CASI White Paper, November 2025.

6. Universal Caregiver Bill of Rights. CASI White Paper, November 2025.