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from the Wall Street Journal:



"An estimated 5.4 million children in the U.S. now provide care to parents, grandparents, or siblings with chronic medical conditions or dementia, up from about 1.3 mullion under 18s two decades ago. The growth is largely due to families' inability to find or afford in-home care, plus an aging population, experts say............."

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I don’t doubt these numbers.

We continue to read about people who don’t plan for their future. This is true of many people. Others who are living paycheck to paycheck can’t possibly save money for retirement or anything else.

If you look at how many assisted living facilities are available now and how many will be built in the future for our aging communities, you will see that there is a huge demand for facility care. It’s an investor’s dream!

We are living a long time these days.
People will either be at home with family as caregivers, agency or private caregivers or in a facility.
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We abolished child labor in factories long ago, but now we’re expecting children to work unpaid as caregivers. It’s terrible.
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Geaton, no solutions and that was the length of it really. It was taken up from the Wall Street Journal by The Week, which I get weekly and love, synopsized news of the week from all around the world. This was in the area where there are tiny little thumbnails.
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Scary. We are living too long, as well, imho.
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