Lorena changes her father's incontinence underwear as he uses the restroom. Over the course of two decades, 53-year-old Guillermo’s diabetes developed into cataracts and later resulted in kidney failure.
She is one of a growing number of Latina(o) millennial caregivers. According to a 2018 reports from AARP, 38 percent of Latin family caregivers are between the ages of 18 and 34, making them the youngest ethnic group providing care.
In comparison, 34 percent of African-American caregivers and just 17 percent of white caregivers are millennial.
Lorena makes breakfast for her father every morning. She is the primary care taker for her father, who is blind due to the cataracts caused by diabetes.
Guillermo Argueta, 53, sits in his bed and eats the scrabbled eggs her daughter made for him.
Lorena was able to find a Catholic charity to help pay for her father’s expenses and medications.
Lorena Argueta and her father, Guillermo, wait for prayer time to begin at a church in southeast Houston. Lorena, 26, is her father’s caregiver and spends every Friday night at church, a place where Guillermo gets to interact with others.
Lorena, center, and Guillermo, pray while attending church service in southeast Houston Friday night. Lorena said she has a hard time having a social life since she now spends her Friday nights taking her father to church and looking after him.
Lorena wheels her father out of church in southeast Houston. Guillermo likes to attend prayer time every Friday evening.