I'm a long-term-care nurse. Navigating my dad's dementia care and the $7,700 monthly cost still overwhelmed me.

Tasha Crouse has cared for her father with dementia for years. Tasha Crouse Tasha Crouse, 55, manages her father's dementia care from Wisconsin and Colorado. Crouse's father, 84, diagnosed with advanced dementia, resides in a costly memory care facility. Facing her father's decline, Crouse is…