00:00A full-fledged long-term care system requires not only funding for individual services,
00:04but also personnel, standards, protocols, and a sustainable network of services in communities.
00:09Otherwise, the family will remain the same invisible resource that the system relies on, without pay.
00:17Experts criticize the tacit shifting of long-term care onto families.
00:21The cost of this issue for the family is loss of income, reduced employment, exhaustion, and the risk of poverty.
00:28Currently, the period of caregiving can be counted toward a person's insurance record,
00:31but only for a working-age person who is not employed and receives the legally provided assistance or compensation.
00:38That is, the system actually forces a relative to choose work without sufficient support or caregiving with loss of income
00:46from work.
00:47A necessary element of the family support system should be a mandatory, separate assessment of the caregiver's needs if one
00:54is required.
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