Tonight, the Democratic candidates for president will once again debate each other.

It'll be the last debate of the year, the first after the president's impeachment, but

even with all the news, it's a pretty safe bet that they'll talk about healthcare.

Almost every debate has opened with a conversation about healthcare.

And even though several of the candidates are in their 70s, you seldom hear a mention

of one essential role of healthcare in America, elder care.

And that's curious because the government's kind of falling down on the job, which means

people like David need to step up.

My name is David Iverson.

I became a caregiver for my mom when I was 59 and she was 95 and cared for her for most

of the next decade until she passed away at the age of 105.

My mom was an extraordinary woman engaged in everything.

Really bright, very capable.

In a different era and in a different time, with no doubt, have been someone who had had

a very dynamic professional career outside of her life as a spouse and mother of three

sons.

She was an active person politically.

She worked hard for candidates.

She believed in.

And so I remember walking into the kitchen once in the fall of 2008 and she was on the

phone and she would begin each phone call by saying, hello, my name is Adelaide Iverson.

I'm 96 years old and George W. Bush was the worst president in my entire lifetime.

...