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“Caregiving for an elderly parent or relative is hard on anyone. But for the nation’s seven million long-distance caregivers, “there’s an extra layer of stress,” says John Schall, who heads the Caregiver Action Network, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. He’s a long-distance caregiver himself, too, for his mother in Livonia, Mich. He calls it “the worry factor”—you’re not…”
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