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Family Caregivers Called 'Cornerstone of National Heathcare System'; Provide $257 Billion Annually in Services.
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AScribe Business & Economics News Service
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February 26, 2004
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Byline: Burness Communications
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A bi-partisan coalition of leading members of Congress and voluntary organizations met Tuesday on Capitol Hill to call attention to the issues facing family caregivers who provide an estimated $257 billion annually in services - more than twice what is spent each year on nursing homes and paid home care combined.
"Caregiving is the issue of our age," said Suzanne Mintz, co-founder and president of the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA), at the first-ever National Town Hall Meeting on Family Caregiving on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. "Sooner or later, it will affect virtually every ...