Overview
- Provider group CECUA calls for a 30% to 35% increase in public rates for residences, day centers and home care to sustain services and improve pay.
- Sector leaders describe persistent hiring and retention problems tied to low wages, precarious contracts, heavy physical and psychological demands, and tougher rural recruitment.
- Fundación Rey Ardid promotes professional training, work–life policies, and psychological and physiotherapy support as part of a strategy to care for caregivers.
- A public exhibition in Zaragoza titled “El poder del abrazo” presents caregiver–care recipient testimonies to raise visibility for person-centered care.
- Opinion reporting from Mexico highlights the scale of unpaid family care, estimating women as roughly three-quarters of caregivers and valuing unpaid care at 26.3% of 2023 GDP.