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Helping Hands & Hard Drives

Century Lives by Ken Stern

Jun 10, 202631:11Science & Medicine

There is a caregiving crisis in America. We simply don’t have enough caregivers to support the number of older adults who need help because of a chronic, disabling, or serious health condition. Most of that work is unrec...

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Helping Hands & Hard Drives is an episode from Century Lives by Ken Stern. There is a caregiving crisis in America. We simply don’t have enough caregivers to support the number of older adults who need help because of a chronic, disabling,...

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Published Jun 10, 2026, 31:11 long, audio available.

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