Primary Education Topic:
Caregiving
Other Education Topics:
Policy and Advocacy
We need to do much more to recognize and support families in their caring role than we do currently.
By Lynn Friss Feinberg
My sisters and I are long-distance family caregivers for our 93-year-old mother. She lives in an assisted living community, having been displaced from her home of more than 50 years by Hurricane Sandy. We have already experienced this profound caregiving journey, having cared for our dad—with my mother and four homecare aides—for nearly seven years before he died five years ago at age 94.