Caregiving

How Hiring a Handyman Can Help Your Elderly Parents

Years ago I saw a van whose driver was letting teenagers off in front of the local high school, where I was...

As our population ages and more of our national focus is on senior care, we can find ourselves in a muddle over...

Decades ago, it was fairly common to have grandparents living with family and it often worked well. It did for my family....

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...

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

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

For some lucky families, having all adult siblings gather around and plan how to take care of Mom and Dad as their...