Family Health

Statistically, black Americans are more likely to serve as family caregivers, spend more hours caregiving and devote a higher percentage of their earnings toward that care than other Americans. If you’re caring for a chronically ill or disabled friend, child or relative, you’ve joined one of the biggest – and most important – workforces in […]

Family Health

via BlackDoctor: Jasmine Harris had a stroke six months before her high school graduation. It started with a headache a couple days before Christmas. The family from Raleigh, North Carolina, had spent the day volunteering so her mother, La’Wana Harris, assumed her 17-year-old daughter was just tired. But the headache didn’t go away after taking […]