A Caregiving Town Hall Meeting hosted by Cathy Unruh served as a catalyst to develop ongoing community coalitions who work to promote services for families who assume care giving responsibilities and advocate for improved policies at local levels. WEDU held a Town Hall with a studio audience of over 100 community members who were knowledgeable in the caregiving industry or who were caregivers themselves. Each provided financial and/or experience & resource support toward raising awareness of the issue. Because of the Bay Area and beyond’s committed community, A Caregiving Town Hall Meeting succeeded in providing local caregiving solutions to the TV audience. WEDU delivered answers, solutions, “best-practices,” and resources to questions about care giving in our local community. It also enlightened and motivated viewers through audience testimony and local debate on the eldercare issue.
The goals of each Town Hall Meeting are to enlighten, empower, and encourage activism among caregivers and their families. They also seek to alert them to services, providers, benefits and policies available to them in their communities.
Caregiving consumers need to know how to navigate their healthcare universe. Our nation now has more parents to care for than children. Caregiving affects each one of us. Forty years after the signing of the Older Americans Act at the beginning of the Vietnam War, caregivers and their families are still looking for answers. Across our country, family caregivers and their communities are coming together to share solutions and change the way we care for our parents, spouses and friends.
In each Town Hall Meeting, a moderator seeks answers and provokes solutions from a group of diverse experts and caregivers. The panelists are surrounded by an audience of 100-150 people, capable of adding their responses to the content. These events are supported by aftermarket outreach activities that will extend the life of the event
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