Chip Jacobs

Musings and opinions from writer Chip Jacobs, with periodic commentary from Gordon the Outrageous.

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Entries Tagged as 'Caregiving crisis'

Coping with caregiving, cracking the past

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Anybody familiar with Wheeling the Deal knows it’s primarily a biography of my over-achieving, under-weighted firecracker of an uncle. There are subthemes aplenty, though, and a driving one is how my grandparents scrambled and strained to give their son the care that his terrible condition – C3/C4 quadriplegia — demanded in an era without rehab [...]

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America’s next great crisis may be a relative away.

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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