Aging

Should Your Parent Risk an Anesthesia Disaster or Forego Surgery?

Note: The study referred to here is older because this is an older article. However, the message of the article to use...

Most of us have seen evidence of people being harder on those they love than they are on strangers, or even people...

Dear Carol: I rarely see this problem addressed. My dad, a widower, was in excellent health for someone in their 70s. He...

“My mom and dad both have dementia. I am all alone taking care of them since. I have no one to help...

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or...

………….. Sex and death: It’s odd that these two topics of conversation should bring so much anxiety to parents and children. One...

Hiring in-home care for my elderly neighbor, Joe, was quite an ordeal. The company we chose and their professional caregivers were great,...

There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging parents....

The responsibility of providing care for an aging or ill loved one is a monumental challenge in its own right. But when...

Dear Carol: My parents and in-laws all lived to be very old, with years of physical and cognitive decline. I willingly cared...