Patrick Ortega is the founder and president of the Civic Family Institute in Los Angeles, a public policy organization dedicated to educating Hispanics on the American political system and current civic affairs.

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Experts agree that expanding the caregiver support system, finding sources of help for caregiver tasks and educating caregivers can significantly decrease the occurrence of this syndrome.

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And if we do that, then we can move beyond governing from crisis to crisis to crisis, and we keep our focus on policies that actually create jobs and grow our economy, and move forward to face all of the other challenges we face, from fixing our broken immigration system to educating our kids to keeping them safe from gun violence.

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Raising awareness that help is available, educating people that they too can be part of the solution and being a support system when all else has seemed to fail are the things that we do best to make a difference.

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