Family caregivers these days give medications that have precise and often complicated schedules. Many give injections and some use feeding tubes and dialysis equipment. Often, they have had little or no training and no reliable resource to answer questions. These duties, once the territory of nurses, are keeping loved ones out of nursing homes longer, but caregivers are stressed more than the general public can imagine.

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