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Caregiver crunch: Baby boomers juggle raising children while helping aging parents

Noted: Already, hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies face a worker shortage. Three times more families need elder care services than the workforce can support. The responsibility will continue to fall heavily on friends and family, who in Wisconsin shoulder 78 percent of the unpaid long-term care needs of the elderly and disabled who need long-term support, according to research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.