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Elderly & Their Disabled Kids

With improved medical care, disabled children are living longer. Already, a growing number of elderly Americans are caring for children who have never been and never will be entirely independent. NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that being a perpetual parent is difficult enough but as these parents grow older, they must also worry about what will happen to their children after they die.

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