Americans are living longer than ever before, and soon older adults will outnumber the young. Today, family caregivers are providing 90 percent of parent care, in addition to balancing work and family, a job most cannot afford to do.
Who will take care of those who can no longer care for themselves? How will the nation adapt to ensure that adequate care can be provided for both the caregivers and for those being cared for?
CARING FOR MOM & DAD (premiering May 2015 on PBS, check local listings), seeks to answer these questions as it explores the emotional, health and financial challenges that many caregivers face every day, and offers solutions and tips to help others embarking on this new future.
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In CARING FOR MOM & DAD, viewers meet families experiencing the challenges and joys of caregiving. These are intimate portraits of struggling caregivers like Breanna Olson, a millennial who was forced to choose between a promising political career and moving back home to care for her parents, and Alicia Zepeda-Cervantes, a daughter thrust, almost overnight, into caregiving, who now must learn how to provide medical services that would traditionally be taken on by a nurse.
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