Caring for aging parents is difficult--it's exhausting, expensive, time-consuming, and under appreciated. And that's under the best of circumstances, when the caregiver loves and respects his or her aging parent. What happens when adult children are asked to care for elderly ...
Taking Care of Our Aging Parents. (cover story)Relates the author's experiences of caring for her elderly parents. Her mother's diagnosis with Lou Gehrig's disease and subsequent death; Her relations with her mother because of the disease and care; Her father's dementia; Effect of her ...
Facebook Email Pinterest More Posted inAging parents,Dementia,Life Changes/Taggedart,assisted living, Just A Simple Magnifying Glass September 24, 2017 I wasn’t prepared for the reaction Phyllis had when I set the magnifier in front of her.“Oh my! Look at that! Can you believe it? Wow....
The fissures started when his soon-to-be ex-wife discovered our relationship. He had moved out of the house eight months before but she was still hurt by it. She even sent me a long text, calling me names. Our love bubble had burst. On top of that, he was being tested for a neur...
I cried to my girlfriends, my sisters, my parents. I felt like I was the only one in the world that had ever been through this. I was hurting physically and emotionally and needed to do something, and quick. We signed our divorce papers in May of last year and had 90 days until ...
SENIOR CARE TAKING ITS TOLL; BOOMERS FIND HELPING AGING PARENTS FORCES LIFESTYLE CHANGESLisa Mascaro\\ Staff Writer
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf ofElleVet Sciencesfor Pet Wellness Month, the survey also found people think about their pet aging as much as they think about getting older themselves (65% each). Pet parents think they can identify the signs their pet is slowing down, such as if their p...
jumping from the Towers repeated and repeated and repeated, are mixed up with memories of other days when time stopped — the deaths of each of my parents, my brother, selling off my dad’s cattle, days that closed one chapter of my life and initiated another, whether I knew it or not...
parents are resistant to the Care Manager my sister brought in and we are struggling with that. Clearly, they need constant help, but they don't see it. I don't even know if the care manager will be enough. In addition, we've been sorting out our roles in light of having the care...
The way this story is being covered in North America, it sounds like the cause of the outbreak is unvaccinated locals and in particular the parents of unvaccinated children, who are portrayed as selfish, resistant to science and downright stupid. However the way this story is being covered in...