Abuse

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...

I think most of us approach the idea of sharing the care of an elder with a lot of trepidation. We have...

Years ago, a journalist (we’ll call her Nancy) requested an interview with me to discuss common caregiving issues for an article she...

Have you thought about what you’d want your obituary to say about you? I hadn’t until I was recently asked to write...

When we think of domestic abuse in a family where elders are cared for, we generally think that the elder is the...

..Nancy had spent years in therapy learning to cope with her childhood issues. Through hard work, she learned to forgive her father...