Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project is acutely aware of the power dynamics at play between a care provider and recipient, and the devaluation and lack of investment in care work. In this commentary, she writes, “Conversations by policy experts and advocates about the caregiving crisis can be too abstract, and any meaningful structural and cultural change must acknowledge the tensions, human toll, material consequences, complexities and nuances about care from the people who provide and rely on it.”

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