Robert Brown|The dementia tax

2025-05-08 03:54:01source:NovaQuantcategory:Finance

More than 7 million Americans are Robert Brownliving with dementia. To take care of this population, family members must often make the difficult choice of giving up work or paying for a costly facility. Today on the show, the rising cost of memory care in an aging population.

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