Burnout

How to Handle Siblings in Denial About a Parent’s Declining Health

Nearly all family caregivers with siblings have experienced some version of sibling denial regarding their aging parents. Whether it stems from a...

Jen has been caring for her parents for almost two years and she is quickly approaching caregiver burnout. A close friend booked...

Caregiver burnout isn’t something that happens all at once. We all have good days and bad days, which is normal. Eventually, though,...

Other than disagreements about the merits and challenges of offering paid family leave to employees, we hear precious little about how employers...

Dear Carol: My mom, age 79, has had steadily declining health for several years. Arthritis is a genetic problem in my family,...

Dear Carol: My mother with dementia has developed a fixation on the silver she sold years ago, and she repeatedly accuses me of...

Dear Carol: I’m taking care of my 68-year-old husband with several serious medical diagnoses, as well as my 97-year-old mother in memory...

I was honored when asked to provide my thoughts about the then-forthcoming The AARP Caregiver Answer Book by Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD and...

When the family member we are trying to care for is critical, impossible to please or emotionally abusive, long-standing family dynamics are...

Most of us lead frantic lives. That’s the nature of the world today. When you add to that the job—for it is...