Care Generation launched in 2020 with support from the National Academy of Medicine. The organization developed from work begun by The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s (YMAA) which in January 2018 introduced a caregiving bill towards the creation of a statewide Care Corps in California. Following a model similar to other national service programs such as AmeriCorps, this program will incentivize young high school or college graduates to spend one to two years providing non-medical respite care to family caregivers of persons with dementia.
Within two legislative cycles, our bill gained the support of more than 30 healthcare and public health organizations, and received endorsements from the mayors of LA, Oakland, Stockton, and Bakersfield. In 2020 the Governor’s Alzheimer’s Task Force recommended this work as a Top10 legislative priority.
During the 2020 election cycle, YMAA spoke with 12 presidential candidates including Joe Biden. Biden shared his plan to support youth in response to the caregiving public health crisis spurred by the growing aging population.
Realizing the momentum in California and being a part of the call to action across the country, we knew we needed an entity to implement a National Care Corps and demonstrate the personal investment of young people. This is when Care Generation began.
Through seed funding from the National Academy of Medicine’s Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, Care Generation, a 501(c)4, was created as the action branch of YMAA. We’re focused on sparking action, lobbying elected officials, and working with labor, aging, and healthcare organizations to implement innovative caregiving solutions.
ADVISORY BOARD
Aisha Adkins
Founder, Our Turn 2 Care and Millennial Caregiver
Michael Bostarr
Director of Strategy and Implementation, SPARC
Dr. Debra Cherry, PhD
Executive Vice President, Alzheimer’s Los Angeles
Michael Ellenbogen
International Dementia Advocate and author, "Living Life to the Fullest with Dementia"
Jay Newton-Small
CEO & Co-Founder, MemoryWell
Seth and Lauren Rogen
Founders, Hilarity for Charity
Dr. Connie Siskowski, RN, MPH, PhD
President and Founder - American Association of Caregiving Youth
Laura Trejo
General Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of Aging
George Vradenburg
Chairman, UsAgainstAlzheimer's
Dr. Jason Ahn, MD, MPA
Chief Development Officer, California Market at Equality Health
Brandon Beckhardt
Managing Member of Evergreen Operations
Ian Cocroft
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Dr. Mary Mittelman, DrPH
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ernie Powell
Social Security Works
Leda Rosenthal
Millennial Caregiver and CEO & Founder, Alz You Need
Elya Taichman
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
Diane Ty
Director, Center for the Future of Aging