The global population needing care is permanently exceeding the population available to provide it. By 2050, 2.1 billion people will be over 60. The WHO projects a shortage of 10 to 18 million healthcare workers by 2030. You cannot hire caregivers who do not exist.
The technology industry's response — twenty years of SaaS investment in care — has made this worse. Fragmented platforms now steal up to 40% of every care shift for administrative work. We call this TangleWare™: the web of disconnected software that creates the very burden it promised to eliminate.
The result is CareDrain™ — the systematic extraction of human capacity from care through the tools meant to support it. Economic drain. Talent drain. Time drain. Stability drain. Energy drain. Five vectors, one structural failure.