Key takeaways Adult day care centers provide crucial, affordable relief for caregivers, especially members of the “sandwich generation” who are taking care of parents and children at the same time. But the estimated 3,100 programs serving an estimated 200,000 people nationally are under constant threat from inadequate funding.  The coming wave of aging baby boomers will dramatically intensify demand for elder care, and put pressure on the federal budget, while a growing “forgotten middle” of seniors — too wealthy for Medicaid, too poor for private care — falls through the crac...

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