CAPAC launches caregiving task force

The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus said it launched a Caregiving Task Force focused on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander caregivers, with Senator Andy Kim and Representative Marilyn Strickland leading it. (capac.house.gov) The caucus’s website identifies CAPAC as an 83-member group in Congress, chaired by Representative Grace Meng, and lists standing task forces on issues including health care, housing, immigration, and veterans. (capac.house.gov 1) (capac.house.gov 2) Kim has made caregiving a central issue in recent months, tying it to his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and describing himself as a member of the “sandwich generation” raising two sons while caring for a parent. (kim.senate.gov 1) (kim.senate.gov 2) Strickland has also been pushing caregiving policy this year. In March, she introduced the bipartisan Care Across Generations Act with Representative Bryan Steil to create grants for long-term care sites that pair elder care with child care. (strickland.house.gov) The policy case behind the new task force is getting bigger. AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving said in July 2025 that 63 million Americans — nearly 1 in 4 adults — are providing ongoing care. (aarp.org) (caregiving.org) A new April 28 Forbes report added an employer angle: Cleo, a caregiving-benefits company, said caregiver burnout can cost employers about $1,000 per member per month in health spending, even when caregiving itself never shows up as a claim line. (forbes.com) A separate April 2026 research brief from the American Society on Aging’s RISE program said AANHPI caregiving remains underexamined in research and policy, even as the population grows older and more diverse across more than 50 ethnic groups and 100 languages. (ceal.sdsu.edu) Federal policy is already moving around the issue. The Administration for Community Living says the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers was first released in 2022 and includes 345 federal actions across 15 agencies. (acl.gov 1) (acl.gov 2) And the policy debate is widening beyond workplace benefits. Howard Gleckman reported in Forbes on April 28 that Brookings-linked experts proposed a universal home-care benefit that would shift much long-term care support from Medicaid to Medicare. (forbes.com) The new CAPAC task force lands in that larger fight: how Congress, employers, and health systems count care work that families are already doing, often unpaid and often out of view. (capac.house.gov) (forbes.com)