About this episode

Rosa and Alexandra Drane discuss the challenges faced by unpaid caregivers and the importance of recognizing their roles.

What if 40% of the people sitting in your waiting room, working on your team, or enrolled in your health plan were quietly carrying an invisible weight, and had no idea there was a name for what they were doing? Alexandra Drane has spent years hunting for those people. As co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS, a public benefit corporation, she's on a mission to find unpaid caregivers who don't identify as caregivers, and connect them to the employer benefits, health plan resources, and community supports already waiting for them. The barrier isn't access. It's recognition. In this conversation, Rosa and Alexandra dig into the science and the soul behind Archangels, including the intensity score (clear, yellow, red) that creates the "aha" moment caregivers didn't know they needed, the surprising data trails that reveal caregiving hiding inside every workforce, and what a stint as a Walmart cashier taught Alexandra about the real weight people carry through their days. They also go deep on stroke caregiving specifically, including the abrupt, total life shift that caregivers of stroke survivors experience, often with no warning and no roadmap. If you work in neurology, if you know a…

People in this episode

Host: Rosa Hart

Guest: Alexandra Drane

Topics covered

• unpaid caregivers
• healthcare
• stroke caregiving
• recognition
• workforce support

Keywords

• caregivers
• Archangels
• intensity score
• stroke
• health plan resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ARCHANGELS

Places: Walmart

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