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Recognizing and Preventing Family Caregiver Burnout

By Eileen MacNalich, AMAC At nearly 35 million strong, family caregivers are the nation’s largest unpaid work force. Caregivers for aging parents in particular, are unsung heroes– tasked with providing meaningful relief and doing their best to give these “patients” the fullest lives possible, they often sacrifice huge parts of their own lives in the …

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Identifying as a Caregiver

  According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, in the United States, 16.6% of us are family caregivers (this term includes partners, friends, and neighbors who provide unpaid care to another) for an adult with an illness or disability. So about one in six of us currently fit this description, although not all recognize that fact …

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