Shara Cohen on Advancing Healthcare Innovation Podcast: Reframing Caregiving – Why the Hidden Workforce Holds the Key to Health Equity

Caregiving isn’t a side note in healthcare. It’s the missing infrastructure.

In a powerful new episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, our CEO, Shara Cohen sits down with host Michael Stamatinos for a candid conversation about something too often overlooked: the essential, invisible work of caregivers.

In this conversation, she shares hard truths about how healthcare often fails caregivers, why that failure is so costly, and what it takes to fix it.

Some of the themes explored:
– The emotional labor of caregiving—and why it should be recognized as care delivery
– Why patient engagement strategies fall short without caregiver support
– How caregivers are the “original remote patient monitors”
– The cultural and economic case for investing in caregivers
– Leadership lessons from decades of building systems that center real human experience

At Carallel, we believe supporting caregivers isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s foundational to better, more equitable, and more sustainable healthcare. Shara’s conversation is an invitation to anyone in the system – health plans, providers, policymakers – to think bigger and act more boldly.

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vwd506Wj7Y