In 2019, Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones II ’s father had a stroke. After spending some time in the hospital, doctors sent him home.

That’s when Jones said he, his mother and his sister became caregivers for his father.

Jones, a Democrat from Augusta, said he and his family were able to pool available resources to help his father recover.

“We put in the paperwork, of course, to get nursing care through (Veterans Affairs), but it takes time,” he said. “There’s a lot of red tape that you have to go through to get a lot of services. They’re there, but you have to go through different things.”

Jones held the first of several meetings Wednesday for senators to study ways to improve family caregiver services. Lawmakers meet between sessions to study various topics that often generate

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