Here are the highlights from this week's news in family caregiving:
Family caregivers become more crucial as elderly population grows
Wall Street Journal | June 3, 2016
"Strain on family caregivers is alarming many lawmakers and social-service providers. They are pushing for new ways to assist the vast unpaid workforce of people who are crucial in part because they allow more seniors to age in place and reduce reliance on public subsidies."
My husband is dying. Caring for him is an emotional roller coaster.
The Washington Post
| June 2, 2016
"In all likelihood, my husband of 25 years will not live to see the inauguration of the next president. When he was diagnosed last June with an aggressive, incurable form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, doctors gave us the devastating news that the average life span for someone with this disease was 12 to 14 months and that Jonathan probably would not live beyond 2016."
A company that cares about caregivers
Chicago Tribune | June 3, 2016
"Why should companies care about accommodating workers who are caregivers to children, aging parents or sick spouses or partners?"
Family life: lightening the burden
National Catholic Reporter | June 2, 2016
"More than 40 million caregivers provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2015, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving, a nonprofit organization that works to increase public awareness of family caregiving issues. And that number is expected to rise with the unprecedented aging population, experts said."
Cool Link of the Week:
The aging of America will create a $279B opportunity by 2020
Forbes | June 2, 2016
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