Facing a severe shortage of aides and high costs, people trying to keep aging loved ones at home often cobble together a patchwork of family and friends to help.
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Why Long-Term Care Insurance Fails Short for So Many
The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for millions of older Americans, in part by underestimating how many policyholders would use their coverage.
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States Try Easing the Burden of Long-Term Care’s High Cost
Seeing their own financial benefits, too, Washington and California are among the states creating programs to help older residents.
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As Harvard Makes Amends for Its Ties to Slavery, Descendants Ask, What Is Owed?
A woman who lived in the shadows of Harvard discovers, at 80, that her enslaved ancestors had links to the university.