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| Leoanteen Mack, 85, sits in the bed where she cared for her mother until she died at 110 in March. "I will never wonder if there was anything I should have done for her," says Mack "I was with her day and night." The demographic shifts that affect the country as a whole are particularly pronounced in rural areas, with 15 percent of rural residents aged 65 or older, and with the fastest growing group being those 85 and older. |