Last year, unpaid caregivers – mostly family members of aging seniors – provided billions of hours and millions of dollars worth of service. They did it all while also balancing work, children, spousal responsibilities and their social life. Now that families are getting smaller, and are also more spread apart geographically than ever before, often the lion’s share of the work falls on just one individual.

Caregiving brings with it a slew of challenges, from guilt about not providing enough care to financial struggles to total burnout, mentally and physically.