Self-care

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...

Dear Carol: Once upon a time, I closed out each year with satisfaction and looked forward with optimism to the next. Now,...

I’m swamped with daily life let alone carrying out holiday traditions. My dad is in memory care…

Unfair as it may seem, even in families with many adult children, one sibling usually becomes the primary caregiver for their aging...

When store employees wish us Merry Christmas we smile back and return the greeting. When acquaintances wave and shout Happy Holidays across...

Most caregivers have some idea of how they intended to spend their lives. But thanks to medical advancements, aging parents are living...

If one can believe the old Westerns, frontier women were the ultimate multi-taskers. They could rock a cradle with their foot to...

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

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

“My mom is 81 and lives alone in her condo,” Judy Hanson writes. “Her arthritis is painful, but she gets around with...