RAND Corporation

Family caregivers in the U.S. spend an estimated 30 billion hours per year caring for older family and friends. That’s about $522 billion in care, according to a new Rand Corp. study, as measured by valuing the time caregivers have sacrificed in order to be able to provide care.

As an aeronautical engineer in the 1950s and 1960s, James Drake helped create such amazing technological breakthroughs as the X-15 rocket plane - the first aircraft to travel six times the speed of sound - and the Tomahawk cruise missile, which became a much-relied-upon weapon in the U.S. military…