Home & Family
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Stay safer at home
By Michelle Cerulli McAdams
By Jill Gambon
AARP is pleased to endorse the bipartisan Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act (H.R. 3759) that will create a strategy to support family caregivers.
What’s your image of a caregiver? If you envisaged a middle-aged woman, one who is caring for an ailing parent, you wouldn’t be wrong. AARP research shows that the “typical” family caregiver is a 49-year old woman who cares for a relative.
As they age, most people want to remain living in their homes for as long as they can. But will their homes safely age along with them?
Major step forward to support 844,000 Massachusetts caregivers! Now on to the Senate and the Governor’s Desk.
By Kenneth J. Cooper
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