The Long-Term Gender and Race Issues in Long-Term Care

Authors

Brendan WilliamsFollow

Abstract

Women outlive men, and, as a consequence, comprise the majority of residents in both the home health and nursing home long-term care settings. Their caregivers are also overwhelmingly-women -- 92% of nursing assistants in nursing homes, for example. And those caregivers are largely non-white. Long-term care has long been regarded as "women's work," beginning with its slavery antecedents in the home setting. This article explores the connection between the devaluing of long-term care, which is largely state-funded through Medicaid, and the gender and race dynamics of long-term care.

Recommended Citation

Brendan Williams, The Long-Term Gender and Race Issues in Long-Term Care, 8 Lincoln Mem’l U. L. Rev. 261 (2020).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/lmulrev/vol8/iss1/4