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Can Costa Rican municipalities safeguard caregivers’ mental health?

“Mom, don’t do that. Mom, make sure you don’t fall down. Mom, you ok over there?” Psychologist Giselle Chanto is trying to show me how one of several caregivers she’s interviewed at their homes in Curridabat, just east of San José, behaved during her multi-hour conversation with him. Like so many others, this man paid […]

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