Summary
Edward, 85, needs round-the-clock attention, including intensive respiratory care to clear his lungs of mucus produced by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and several infusions a day from a feeding tube. The number of Americans serving as unpaid caregivers for another adult has doubled in the past 10 years to more than 44 million, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving, a nonprofit coalition of caregiving groups.
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All-Day Caregiving
Sixty years ago, he fought in the swamps of New Guinea during World War II and, when the war was over, fell in love with a girl on roller skates at a Billings drive-...
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