** Winner of Two 2024 Communicator Awards of Excellence from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts

As the U.S. rapidly ages, disability rates surge, and parents struggle to raise their children, families are increasingly realizing that the affordable and responsive care system they thought would be in place doesn’t exist. To understand why, A Question of Care delves into the question: what has happened to our country’s caregiving system?

Hosted by Robert Espinoza, a national expert and frequent speaker on the workforce and aging, this podcast tackles various urgent caregiving topics through interviews with leading experts and editorial commentary. Season 2 comes out in fall 2024, and new episodes premiere every two weeks.

Season 1 focuses on the primary challenges facing older people and our rapidly aging country. Future seasons will examine other significant aspects of caregiving.

Season 2 examines the roles and realities of direct care and childcare workers—the frontline workforce for millions of older adults, individuals with disabilities, and families.

Robert Espinoza is a national expert in workforce, aging, and caregiving issues. For more than 25 years, he has spearheaded high-profile advocacy initiatives and written seminal reports on the workforce, aging and long-term care, LGBTQ+ rights, and more.

Robert is currently the Chief Executive Officer at National Skills Coalition, which fights for state and federal policies that promote inclusive, high-quality skills training so that workers across industries access a better life and local businesses see sustained growth. Prior to the Coalition, he served as the Executive Vice President of Policy at PHI, where he oversaw its acclaimed think tank on the direct care workforce for nearly a decade.

In addition, Robert is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and sits on the board of directors for the National Academy of Social Insurance, the FrameWorks Institute, and the American Society on Aging, where he serves as Board Chair. In 2020, Robert was selected for the inaugural CARE100 list, recognizing him as one of the most forward-thinking individuals reshaping the landscape of caregiving in America, and in 2021, he testified before Congress on the profound need to transform direct care jobs.

Host and Executive Producer: Robert Espinoza

Production: Modry Media

Cover Art: Steven Rosen

A Question of Care is dedicated in loving memory of Robert Eloy Espinoza (1934-2023) and Aurora Lopez de Espinoza (1939-2020).