Youth caregivers shouldn't be backstop for systemic failures
A scam text. A forgotten password. An insurance bill written in a language no one seems meant to understand. For millions of Americans, these are the everyday tasks of caring for an aging parent, and increasingly, of parenting the people who once parented us.About 1 in every 4 Americans is now a family caregiver — a 45% increase over the last decade. And since most care recipients are adults over 75, we often frame this as a story about aging boomers. But the untold half of that story is the…
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