The Emotional Toll of Moving Your Elderly Parent to Senior Living
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or fancy a...
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. For most of us, the feeling is less about how large or fancy a...
………….. Sex and death: It’s odd that these two topics of conversation should bring so much anxiety to parents and children. One addresses the...
There’s a great deal of anger in the world of family caregiving over siblings who don’t help care for their aging parents. Very often,...
The responsibility of providing care for an aging or ill loved one is a monumental challenge in its own right. But when a care...
Years ago, I stumbled upon a video that remains vivid in my mind. In it, an elderly couple who had spent a lifetime devoted...
Deciding whether to tell someone who is cognitively impaired that their spouse has died is a serious and often recurring struggle. Dementia and death...
Dear Carol: Like many of your readers, my husband has dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, and I’m caring for him at home. We’ve always...
Witnessing our parents’ aging process can be uncomfortable. Some people consider the pain so unbearable that they find reasons to be angry with their parents....
To me, the definition of a mother is someone who nurtures. Yes, carrying a child in your womb for months and then giving birth...
Becoming a family caregiver is often something that either happens very suddenly or slowly sneaks up on a person. When a loved one has...