America Is Running Out of Family Caregivers, Just When It Needs Them Most Smaller, more far-flung families mean fewer unpaid helpers. ‘Are you really my daughter?’ It's time to begin preparing for the inevitable - we all get older and more frail. Some of us plan to have wheelchair races, while others will just end up in drifting through time.  Many of us are now in the 'sandwich' generation, having adult children and elderly parents, whom we are trying to help. How would you like to [...]

We Americans are living longer and more of us are eventually going to need long-term nursing home care.  The cost can be devastating to a family. Nursing home care now costs an average of over $85,000 per year, and much more than that in some parts of the country. Medicaid is a government program that can pay for long-term nursing home care. However, it is intended to help low-income and low-wealth individuals, and it generally won't pay for care on behalf of individuals who have significant [...]