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In high-income countries, paid caregiving for older people has been one of the fastest growing areas of employment over the past 30 years.
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Caring for an older person with a high level of care need is an incredibly demanding job, especially when the person responsible for performing this role has to do it almost entirely on their own.
Since 2011, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has been running an innovative scheme to support care-dependent older people in disadvantaged communities.
The Global Platform first came together in early 2020 as an ad hoc and spontaneous “we need to do something” response to the terrifying first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programa Maior Cuidado (PMC) is a public sector intervention in Belo Horizonte, Brazil that provides lay carers to vulnerable older people for up to 20 hours per week.
On 3 April 2022 a strict lockdown was introduced in the Chinese city of Shanghai, in response to rapid increases in reported COVID-19 cases.
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