Detaching With Love: Setting Boundaries With Difficult Elderly Parents
When the family member we are trying to care for is critical, impossible to please or emotionally abusive, long-standing family dynamics are often to...
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Detaching With Love: Setting Boundaries With Difficult Elderly Parents
When the family member we are trying to care for is critical, impossible to please or emotionally abusive, long-standing family dynamics are often to...
What to Do If You Suspect Neglect or Abuse in Your Parent’s Retirement Home
I think most of us approach the idea of sharing the care of an elder with a lot of trepidation. We have cared for...
Caring for Aging Parents Who Didn’t Care for You
Years ago, a journalist (we’ll call her Nancy) requested an interview with me to discuss common caregiving issues for an article she was writing....
You Can Be Proud of Your Caregiving Legacy
Have you thought about what you’d want your obituary to say about you? I hadn’t until I was recently asked to write an article...
Can Caregivers be Subject to Abuse by Their Care Receivers?
When we think of domestic abuse in a family where elders are cared for, we generally think that the elder is the most likely...
Caring for Aging Parents Who Didn’t Care for You
..Nancy had spent years in therapy learning to cope with her childhood issues. Through hard work, she learned to forgive her father for his...
