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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care.

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