Kenneth Bence

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Health Chatter · Disabilities Research & Policy with Kenneth Bence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

But the bulk of that individual's care and support is coming from their own families.

Um, and, and they're not just supporting children.

There's support person up through their adults.

We see as our, as the demographics and our society is aging, more and more aging parents are still supporting adult children with disabilities and in their own home and becoming less and less able to do that.

And so that's a, that's a huge concern.

You know, people really as the age want to make sure that their loved one has this taken care of in some fashion.

And so.

So that's why we need this network of paid caregivers as well.

But the unpaid and unrecognized caregivers are a large segment of the unseen workforce in this field.

Yeah, I mean, there are also invisible disabilities.

A person with a developmental or intellectual disability

or something like autism or something like that.

It's not, obviously it's not immediately apparent that they would have a disability, but they have compromises in some of their abilities in functioning.

And so they would have a disability.

I would think from a health practitioner's perspective, the greater understanding the practitioner has of what a person's limitations and disabilities are, the better care they can render.

I think a person with mobility issues, like you were saying, who ends up with something like diabetes, where there's a significant self-care component, whether it's monitoring your glucose or having to give yourself insulin or whatever, that can become more challenging.

And so they may have more of a need for a caregiver of some kind to help with things like that.

And if a person has

limited intellectual capacity, their ability to care for themselves is much more limited.

And so there definitely is an interplay there.

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