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Balancing Work as a Caregiver With Your Job

For the past three years, Paula Gomes says that she has sometimes felt she is working two full-time jobs--her human resources position at Emory University in Atlanta, and her role as a caregiver to her mother and mother-in-law.

"There's just a lot to learn" when you become a caregiver, says Gomes, 60, executive director of Emory's Faculty Staff Assistance Program. "You're stepping in all of the

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