Chip Jacobs

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

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

As I learned in writing and researching the book about my uncle, whose devastating accident not only bankrupted the family but, in a sense, enslaved my grandmother to be his nearly full-time nurse, caregiving does not come on the cheap and has its own way of igniting disease. Here's the piece I wrote about it for the Pasadena Weekly earlier this year. The numbers are staggering. And the trend may be headed to an abyss near you sooner than you might realize.

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