I'll never get over this! Dogs don't usually work this hard to stay front-facing unless they feel unsafe, but this
She said she hopes the documentary leaves people "optimistic about the change that is possible, and determined to push for policies that we know can and do work."Zulma Torres, also featured in the film, is a paid home health aide and a family caregiver for her granddaughter. She said she sees so many people who need care who can't afford it and can't access the resources to get the help they need.
Torres has grown to love her job as a caregiver, but said it's hard work that doesn't get the attention or support it deserves. Home care workers are the ones keeping patients at peace, washing them, feeding them and keeping them company when they feel alone."We care," Torres said. "We care for these patients."The documentary and the nation's renewed focus on caregiving is crucial, said Ai-jen Poo, executive director and board secretary for
, because people are living longer than ever before. Meanwhile, she said, America "just isn't built to support care."“The care crisis that everyone experienced during COVID really brought it home for people, in such a stark way, how little infrastructure we have in place to support us on such a fundamental and universal need," she said. "That has sparked a tremendous, exponential growth and awakening in our movement that can’t be undone.”
A lot of people who care for their family members don't even know they are caregivers, she said. They often feel alone and don't know that solutions are possible.
“We each have a care story," Poo said. "And sometimes it takes seeing or hearing someone else’s to realize that we’re caregivers and that we actually share this really profound experience.”spoke with Choudhury on everything from vintage shopping to why she loves New York—and how fashion is a lot like flirting. Ahead is Sarita Choudhury's
Chic. Ease. Italian, Indian—I know I cheated.If I'm shopping, I'm mostly looking for vintage...even if I'm shopping online. I tend to veer towards French and Italian brands, or when I'm visiting India, there are specific stores I go to. There is a place in Paris, in Le Marais, where I found my favorite Saint Laurent shoes. Love me a Saint Laurent! And in Rome, where I grew up, there's the Porta Portese market where you can get a vintage cashmere cardigan, old books, and unique pink knee-high socks.
It's a pair of jeans that everyone always asks me about that are really old Levi'. They were given to me by a guy, so you know they have that kind of heavy weight to them. I wear those with a white T-shirt and usually Repetto ballerina slippers.It's funny, I never thought about [style] in my family, you know, definitely on my British side. I do have a certain reserve, and I love a good collar and an A-line skirt. There's definitely an influence there. Recently, when I went home to Kolkata, one of my aunties came over, and she was wearing a sari that had a very old look to it, almost like a black and white photo made in red, and she had these thick rim, almost like German intellectual glasses on, and I looked at her, and I was like, "Oh if I wore a sari, I would wear it like her."