As the presidential candidates crisscrossed the early-primary states in recent months, Americans facing the challenges of long-term care might have wondered about the contenders' own experiences with their parents. And more important, how have those experiences helped shape the candidates' policies on the way families provide and receive long-term care?
Universally, the candidates have made the best of the varied situations they've been dealt. And from these encounters have emerged a variety of proposals that range from neighborhood networks to many ways government should or shouldn't help.
