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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Sally White helps her husband of 46 years get dressed, fed and on the bus for the short ride from their home to Third Age Adult Day Center four mornings a week. When he’s at Third Age, I clean the house and try to get errands done.” For thousands of older Americans like the Whites, Third Age …
Editor’s Note: Molly Dickens, Ph.D., is a stress physiologist and Co-Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, &Mother. Given the wealth of research linking daily chronic stress to long-term health, it’s worth asking: is our country’s failure to support caregivers making Americans sick? As of this writing, Congress is debating President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which includes historic …