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Opinion | Caring for elders is hard. A new program could help. – The Washington Post

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Caring for elders is hard. A new program could help.

Families need government to get out of the way, December 17, 2025

4 min, By Carrie Lukas, Carrie Lukas is president of Independent Women.

Inflation eased this past year, but not for everything: In-home elder care costs surged by nearly 10 percent, which is more than three times the overall inflation rate. Brace for continued double-digit price increases without policy change.

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Elder care costs are rising because demand is rising. By 2030, the number of people aged 65 and older will exceed 73 million; that’s a 30 percent increase in just one decade.

Yet instead of preparing for this reality, policymakers have constructed a system that discourages flexibility and rewards bureaucracy. The average cost of full-time, in-home assistance is nearly $80,000 a year. Residential facilities are even pricier: roughly $127,000 per year for a room in a private nursing home and around $70,000 for a room in assisted living. These costs are rising faster than wages, savings and public budgets.

Most older Americans don’t want to end up in residential facilities. A 2022 AARP survey found that 77 percent of adults aged 50 and older said they want to “age in place.” Unfortunately, government policy often stands in the way of seniors staying in their homes.

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One culprit is the 2013 “Home Care Rule,” a Labor Department reinterpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act that gutted the long-standing companionship exemption. Families who once hired live-in companions through agencies for light caregiving and daily living assistance suddenly faced overtime and wage rules. While some families employ live-in help as household employees or independent contractors, more than three quarters of home care aides are hired through agencies. While those rules may make sense for traditional employers, they don’t work for private households — instead, they make in-home elder care needlessly complex and prohibitively costly.

The Trump administration is working to rescind that rule, which is a crucial step in the right direction. It would allow families to negotiate caregiving arrangements that meet their needs without violating a tangle of labor laws.

But more can be done. Policymakers should look beyond regulatory rollback to innovation. They can start by making it easier for seniors to offer rent-free housing as partial compensation for caregiving services. Under the current interpretation of labor laws, room and board cannot be considered part of compensation if it’s offered as a condition of employment. Changing this provision to allow room and board to count as compensation would make hiring live-in assistance financially viable for middle-income seniors. This could be a win-win for caregivers and seniors alike. Millions of seniors live in homes with unused spare bedrooms and face a challenge with loneliness, which can lead to deteriorating mental and physical health. Caregivers, on the other hand, often struggle to afford housing.

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Welcome to Mastering the Illusion!!

If you've hung around me long enough, you know I talk all the time about getting control over the mind, shutting down the stories in your head, learning to feel better, and not being so scared of making change in your life. I've done all of these things and I know how challenging they can be. I also know that you can learn to be okay and actually move forward and change your life.

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Over the next month before Christmas I'll be doing intake interviews. Once you've joined the program, you'll be able to book a private session with me immediately. During that session, I'm going to figure out where you're at, where you're stuck, and how I can help.

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My goal is to help you see your life a little differently so you can move in it and not feel so trapped. This program is for people that feel trapped right now. It is for people that want to make change but don't know where to start. It is for people that come up with all the crazy worst-case scenarios, freak themselves out, and never move. It's for people that are just like I was.

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