With my progressing MS and age, the odds are I'll need at-home care or a care facility, which will quickly drain my savings and home.
But I'm not alone: 70% of seniors will need care. And more than 105 million are in the “sandwich generation,” who often juggle caregiving with jobs outside the home — a number that has more than doubled in the last decade.
"It doesn't matter if you're in Portland or if you're in central Illinois," a policy expert says, "[access to care] is a nationwide problem.”
But now the care issue is on candidates’ radar, and that’s good for us. Read their plans.
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