More college students balance course loads and elder caregiving
Students in the 9 a.m. public relations class at California State Northridge often rolled in drowsy, with coffee in hand and minutes to spare, but...
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Millennial Caregivers
Hispanic millennials are more likely to become caregivers for elder relatives
Over the course of two decades, 53-year-old Guillermo Argueta’s diabetes developed into cataracts and later resulted in kidney failure. That was when his sister, Ana...
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How to share the caregiving burden from a long distance
I was 28 when my dad was first diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). I was a single young professional, working my first management job...
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What employers need to know about millennial family caregivers
When Jennifer Levin’s father was diagnosed six years ago with a degenerative neurological disease, she began trying to manage his care in New York from...
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A window to the future? When a parent has Huntington’s, children are caregivers and potential carriers
Seth Rotberg was 15 years old when his mother was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease. The diagnosis brought an end to years of confusion about his...
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Can a volunteer ‘Care Corps’ create a pipeline of long-term care workers?
California lawmakers are considering a plan to build up the next generation of long-term care providers by creating a trained Care Corps. Modeled after AmeriCorps,...
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Millennial caregivers: by the numbers
Family caregivers are getting younger. The responsibility of tending to the daily needs of an elderly or chronically ill loved one is increasingly being shared...
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This millennial helps other young caregivers find freedom through technology
For anyone newly managing their parents’ finances, trying to understand medical directives, or generally feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for a family member,...
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The day my life changed forever: For this millennial, caregiving comes first now
For Rachel Hiles, May 23, 2015 is marked in her conscious as her own personal day of infamy. That’s the day that her grandmother fell...
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Companies expand family leave to include elder caregiving
Leslie Tracy wanted to be able to help when her mother took a turn for the worse in her battle with ovarian cancer last spring....
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Do YOU give a care? is an effort led by The SCAN Foundation to highlight the caregiving role that more than 10 million millennials are playing in their families.
