The $10,000 Per Month Question: What Rising Long-Term Care Costs Mean for Families Planning Ahead
A sourced look at where care costs stand in 2026, why they're climbing, and what households can do to prepare before a crisis hits.
Late on a Tuesday afternoon, a woman named Tammy La Barbera sat in her mother's living room in New Jersey, watching the light shift across the walls. Her mother, Ada, was 90 years old and had been diagnosed with dementia five years earlier. In recent months, Ada's condition had deteriorated quickly enough that Tammy made a decision millions of American families eventually face: she quit her job as an event manager to become a full-time caregiver. "I don't have help here, and I know it's going to get worse," Tammy...
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