Taking care of aging parents is becoming more and more common these days. One expert says caregiving today is comparable to running a small medical unit in the home.

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By Sunita Sohrabji

Contributing Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — When Dan Salinger thinks about when his caregiving journey began, he realizes it didn’t start with a single dramatic event. Instead, it happened slowly, and so gradually that he didn’t even realize the role he had stepped into.

“I was a caregiver long before I knew I was a caregiver,” Salinger told reporters last month during an American Community Media news briefing. “I had my dad with me for about five years, but the caregiving journey really started 10 or more years ago.”

Salinger’s 93-year-old father had been living independently before small but s

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