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Enshrining Eldercare as a Civil and Human Right
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Christopher Laxton recently retired after a 40-year career in eldercare, including the last 10 at the helm of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. He joins “Elevate Eldercare” to discuss his personal definition of retirement, reframing aging in the United States, and creating a world where eldercare – and health care writ large – is a baseline human right for all people.
In this wide-ranging and provocative interview with Penny Cook, Laxton calls for universal health care access for people of all ages, challenging us to imagine a landscape where eldercare support services are exclusively non-profit or government-operated – with the goal of rectifying decades of inequality and ageism.
Learn more about AMDA: https://paltc.org/
Read about Maggie Kuhn’s work with the Gray Panthers: https://www.graypanthersnyc.org/maggie-kuhn
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