There’s an invisible, unpaid workforce caring for the 6 million Americans currently living with Alzheimer’s disease. The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics estimates that 11 million family caregivers bear this emotional, physical and financial burden, mostly on their own.

USC experts say that while we wait for better Alzheimer’s treatments, there’s something we can do right now: Turn our attention to the caregivers.

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