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caretaking

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Recent Examples of caretaking New York State is making roughly 900 ElliQ devices available to help older people in need of caretaking. — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Moreover, technologies that keep us continually connected have given rise to a relentless and transcendent type of caretaking. — Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026 This preemptive caretaking also prevents people from growing out of egocentric thinking. — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 But the new season, which benefits tremendously from having shaken off the source material, reframes such caretaking as a literal labor of love. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 This kind of mutual caretaking, physical as well as emotional, prods larger conversations about the state of the world — particularly, Marie-Lou’s nursing home facing a perpetual funding crisis. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 Low pay, heavy workloads, and lack of clear worker protections and advancement opportunities have been common across the industry, but the pandemic really accelerated things, as issues like cost of living and accommodations for disability and caretaking were exacerbated. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026 Our institutions now reward leaders who excel at emotional caretaking over those who can actually produce order. — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026 Matt Lovatt, director for the UK’s Trentham Monkey Forest, told the BBC that rejection by parents is rare among macaques, but that males of the species do as much caretaking as the females, so Punch still has a good chance of integrating into the troop and developing normally, even without his mom. — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2026

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This frees her to focus on crucial human skills such as customer understanding, trust-building, and strategic decision-making, especially vital for balancing her demanding career with family responsibilities and caregiving.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Rather, the act of caregiving is a biologically adaptive process.

— Nishant Pandya, STAT, 17 Aug. 2026

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At least not until next year, as the makeup mogul (and more) has sworn off new motherhood until her 20s are over.

— Marzia Nicolini, Vanity Fair, 29 Aug. 2026
Back in 2021, Bullock — who is returning to the role of Sally Owens alongside Practical Magic costar Nicole Kidman — opened up about coming to motherhood later in life.

— Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026

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