Current:Home > MarketsThe dementia tax -Mastery Money Tools
The dementia tax
View
Date:2025-04-13 18:59:00
More than 7 million Americans are living 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.
Related Episodes:
Who's gonna take care of grandma?
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood! (3516)
Related
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- President acknowledges Hunter Biden's 4-year-old daughter as his granddaughter, and Republicans take jabs
- Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
- Wicked weather slams millions in US as storms snap heat wave on East Coast
- Skins Game to make return to Thanksgiving week with a modern look
- Here’s how hot and extreme the summer has been, and it’s only halfway over
- Pro-Trump PAC spent over $40 million on legal bills for Trump and aides in 2023
- Blake Lively Cheekily Clarifies Her Trainer Is Not the Father of Her and Ryan Reynolds’ 4 Kids
- Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power
- Check Out the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale for Deals on Free People Sweaters, Skirts, Dresses & More
Ranking
- Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
- Ukraine says Russian missiles hit another apartment building and likely trapped people under rubble
- DirecTV just launched the Gemini Air—its new device for 4K content streaming
- How to protect your car from extreme heat: 10 steps to protect your ride from the sun
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- 1st stadium built for professional women's sports team going up in Kansas City
- 1st stadium built for professional women's sports team going up in Kansas City
- West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee given contract extension
Recommendation
Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
Islanders, Here’s Where to Shop Everything in the Love Island USA Villa Right Now
Wicked weather slams millions in US as storms snap heat wave on East Coast
Girl, 6, is latest child to die or be injured from boating accidents this summer across US
Sam Taylor
Below Deck's Captain Lee and Kate Chastain Are Teaming Up for a New TV Show: All the Details
10 people died at the Astroworld music festival two years ago. What happens now?
Britney Spears' Mother-in-Law Hospitalized After Major Accident