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AARP and Family Caregivers Call on Governor Spitzer for Help to Keep the Elderly at Home

Published in Hospital Business Week, November 4th, 2007

Family caregivers joined AARP and representatives from Adult Day Care organizations to call on Governor Eliot Spitzer to enhance services and supports for unpaid family caregivers in his upcoming 2008 Budget proposal.

More than two million family caregivers in New York State provide the majority of the state's long-term care services which were valued at over $24 billion in 2006. Caregivers often juggle full-time jobs, emotional stress, and loss of wages caring for loved ones and keeping them out of expensive, taxpayer funded long-term care.

"We are asking Governor Spitzer to strengthen his investment in family caregiving by enhancing the services...

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