Help at hand when elderly relative's health fails

 
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press | Published: December 23, 2012   

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was living alone in New York and whose health was beginning to decline.

photo - In this Tuesday, Dec. 4 photo, Barbara Newman Mannix, founder of A Dignified Life, poses for a photo outside her office in White Plains, N.Y. The company stands in for family members who can't be as close as they'd like when an elderly relative begins to decline. AP photo <strong>Jim Fitzgerald - AP photo</strong>
In this Tuesday, Dec. 4 photo, Barbara Newman Mannix, founder of A Dignified Life, poses for a photo outside her office in White Plains, N.Y. The company stands in for family members who can't be as close as they'd like when an elderly relative begins to decline. AP photo Jim Fitzgerald - AP photo

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Schwartz's dilemma was similar to that faced by more and more Americans as the population spreads out, people live longer and giving up a job is out of the question.

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