11/19/2025
📣 URGENT: Pennsylvania’s Budget Overlooked Home Care — Again.
🎬 And This Documentary Shows Exactly Why It Matters.
Pennsylvania’s new budget may have passed, but it severely overlooked the caregiving workforce that keeps seniors safe at home.
👉 94% of home care workers received NO wage increase.
👉 Only participant-directed caregivers (about 6% of the workforce) received the $21M wage boost.
👉 Meanwhile, over 112,500 home care shifts go unfilled every month because wages are too low to recruit and keep caregivers.
👉 Pennsylvania still reimburses agencies only $20.63/hour — far below surrounding states like West Virginia.
This is why families struggle to find care.
This is why caregivers are burning out.
This is why agencies are fighting to stay open.
And now a powerful PBS documentary — produced by Bradley Cooper, who knows this crisis personally — shines a light on what’s truly happening behind closed doors.
🎬 Watch “Caregiving” FREE on PBS:
👉 https://www.pbs.org/video/caregiving/
This film exposes the heartbreaking reality of caregiving: the love, the exhaustion, the sacrifice, and the broken systems that constantly fail both caregivers and families.
Our caregivers are heroes. They deserve better — and so do the communities they serve.
📣 After you watch, take action:
🗣 Tag Governor Shapiro
📍 Tag your local legislators
✍️ Tell them Pennsylvania MUST invest in home care.
The longer we wait, the more people go without essential care.