This past weekend the Washington Post Magazine published a feature about a home health aides and family caregivers,
including 104-year-old woman who cared for her 91-year-old sister in
her home. The feature includes a slideshow with audio and an accompanying interview with the Marla Lahat , executive director of a home healthcare agency. The story follows
Marilyn Daniel, a home health aide, throughout her daily tasks.

The
country will need hundreds of thousands more workers like Marilyn
Daniel if it's going to keep today's elderly, followed by their far
more numerous baby boomer children, out of institutions. Already, the
occupational category called "personal and home-care aides" is the
nation's second-fastest-growing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports. It projects a more than 50 percent increase in such jobs by
2016, second only to the demand for "network systems and data
communications analysts."

It's not hard to see what's fueling
the need. Americans survive far longer than they used to: A man who
reaches age 65 can now expect to reach 82, and a woman 85, the National
Center for Health Statistics reports. But most spend those extended
lives contending with chronic illnesses and disabilities, including
climbing rates of Alzheimer's, that can make it risky and difficult to
maintain an independent household, or even to take an unassisted
shower.

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