One afternoon last year, Amy Coupal went to visit her eighty-seven-year-old father at the retirement facility in Toronto where he lives. She soon realized that a medical need he hadn’t told her about was going to extend what was supposed to be a brief drop-by. With a pair of thirteen-year-old twins at home expecting her, focusing on her father was going to require some pivoting and reorganization. Coupal was familiar with this caregiving skillset, not only personally, but also as the CEO of the Ontario Caregiver Organization (OCO), a nonprofit that supports the province’s roughly four million caregivers. She quickly came up with an alternative plan for her children, messaging her husband: “I need to not be on dinner anymore. I need you on it.” Caregiving for her parent rose to the top of her priority list as the leisure visit turned into three hours of healthcare management ...