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A new AARP study finds family caregivers spend, on average, nearly a third of their household income on care. Sometimes, the first challenge is understanding how much help someone needs. We talk with NYT and KFF Health News journalist Paula Span. "Parents will downright lie and tell you on the phone they're fine and they're handling everything, and ‘you can just butt out, thank you,’ and then you go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas and you see the reality and think, things are not fine,” Span tells Tonya Mosley. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Inst...
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We will learn something on election night, but not everything. There's a lot we will not know, especially when it comes to close races, and we'll know much more the next morning and the morning after that. So save yourself a little time scrolling and listen to Up First.
We'll be there when you wake up each and every morning this week with the latest midterm election news. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. Something has shifted in my conversations with friends lately.
We still talk about work and our kids, but more and more, we also talk about our parents, whether it's safe for them to keep living alone, who's taking them to the doctor, how much help they really need, and who's going to pay for it. It turns out a lot of us are paying for it ourselves.
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