I am 55 and am now doing some caregiving for my husband of 76 yrs. At first, I was digging for information, getting on boards, listening to doctors and nurses and health aides. Just keeping track of who does what, what their titles are, and then remembering doctor appts, and legal appts., along with keeping up with the budget and household duties is alot!!! Not to mention keeping up with the appts. of me. Then I discover all this information on medicaid, medicare, the VA and more! I had looked over this information before, but until you are in this situation, you are now opened up to new information! Boy! I want to say that my little brain is almost to the point of saying, please let me have a vacation or a break, not to mention the elderly that won't know how to go through all this maze of information! Some don't even know, or want to know, how to navigate through the internet.
I took care of him for 3 and a half years before he died. So I know how you all feel.