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When extended families share medication costs but reach collective financial breaking point

My extended family has been taking turns helping cover my grandmother's medication costs but the financial strain is affecting everyone's ability to pay their own bills and we're starting to resent the obligation but no one wants to be the person who says they can't help anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Distributed caregiving costs create collective financial stress where individual breaking points threaten the whole support system.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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