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Annie O'Neill The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"Who Will Care?"


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Aging parents of disabled adults face the challenge of finding replacement caretakers when they are forced to relinquish that role. More than 60 % of 4.6 million people with developmental disabilities in 2002 lived at home with family members, and one-fourth of those family caregivers were 60 or older. Donald Tullis, 84, has been taking care of his autistic son Tim, 50, by himself for five years. His wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at that time and died a year later. This morning he helps Tim walk down the icy steps from their Pittsburgh apartment to a van that will take Tim to the Ross Center, a training center for developmentally disabled adults.
 

 

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