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Video: Hard times, hope from the front lines of caregiving

By Marquette University students, Jackie Crosby

June 5, 2018 at 4:45PM
Eileen Adams, left, embraced Betty Agee after taking her to get a haircut right after she checked out of an assisted living facility she had been living in after an injury on June 27, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn. Adams planned bring Agee home to live with her for constant supervision.
Eileen Adams, left, embraced Betty Agee after taking her to get a haircut right after she checked out of an assisted living facility she had been living in after an injury on June 27, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn. Adams planned bring Agee home to live with her for constant supervision. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Marquette University students Yiren Yang, Patrick Thomas and Jack Goods helped produce these stories on family caregivers as part of the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service.

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