Episode 18 · Family caregiving
Senior Director of Caregiving at the AARP Public Policy Institute, and co-author of Valuing the Invaluable 2026
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“Too often we wait until there's a crisis … One thing that we are sure of is that we get older every day … But we don't always want to think about what that means.”
— Rita Choula, Episode 18, at 13:55
About Rita
Rita B. Choula is Senior Director of Caregiving at the AARP Public Policy Institute, and a nationally recognized expert on family caregiving, aging and long-term care policy. Her work bridges research and policy to practice, focused on the millions of Americans who provide unpaid care to loved ones.
She is a co-author of AARP's 2026 Valuing the Invaluable report, which estimates the economic value of family caregiving at $1.01 trillion a year. She led the Home Alone Alliance video series for family caregivers who perform complex medical tasks at home.
She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration and is a board member of the National Alliance for Caregiving. Rita also brings personal experience to this work: she cared for her mother for more than a decade.
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