The Difficulties of Caring for an Aging Parent
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Joan Lunden Talks About How to Plan to Be a Caregiver to Your Parents
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Families on the Brink: What to do about Mom and Dad?
ABC News Special Series, Families on the Brink Round-table Discussion on How to Help Aging Parents ABC News – Families on the Brink: What to do about Mom and Dad? As the baby boom generation approaches retirement age, millions of Americans are facing one wrenching question: What to do about Mom and Dad? The country…
Lose the Caregiver Guilt
Feel at Peace: Lose the Caregiver Guilt By Carol Bradley Bursack, AgingCare.com Scene one: The first call of the day from your mom you can handle. “Oh, hi, Mom. Yes, it’s a pretty day. Maybe you should walk down the hall and see Marian?” You chat awhile and then say, “Bye. Love you, too.” Five…
The Mixed-up Emotions of Caregiving
2012 CT Press Club Award-Winning Article… The Mixed-Up Emotions of Caregiving By Laurie Newkirk Dealing with one’s mother’s emotional and/or mental issues is very hard and draining. I find my feelings conflicted, glad to be helping, resentful to have to be doing it, wanting the best for her but not wanting to have to give…
Siblings in Denial
Siblings in Denial About a Parent’s Declining Health and Care Needs By Carol Bradley Bursack AgingCare.com Nearly all family caregivers who have siblings have experienced some version of sibling denial in regard to their parents. Whether the denial is the subconscious need to ignore the fact that a parent is declining, or they want to…
Becoming Your Parents Parent
By Rebecca Lippel Greenwich Citizen There seems to be an evolution to the life cycle. We begin as dependent infants and children in absolute need of our parents to protect and nurture us. The teen years appear to be a time to push away from that same protection and nurturing we crave when entering the…
Dementia Arguments
How to Win Dementia Arguments By Frena Gray-Davidson So, here are useful words and phrases to use while arguing with people with dementia. Ready? Okay, here goes: 1. Uh-huh; 2. Really? 3. I know. 4. You do? 5. Okay then. You can’t possibly lose a dementia argument using these. Oh, did I mention that no-one…
Elderly Parents and Dealing with Guilt
We feel an enormous weight of guilt and sometimes even a sense of failure for our inability to care for aging parents. Guilt, helplessness, and the pain of realizing that you may no longer be suited, or able, to give your elderly parent what he or she needs is an enormous burden for any child…
Forgiving Your Parent
Forgiving Your Parent for How They Treated You in the Past By Marlo Sollitto, AgingCare.com Every caregiver has a family history. Some of that history may be unpleasant, disappointing or even abusive. A caregiver’s experience of abuse, neglect and addiction leaves lasting scars. Moving beyond the past is never easy. But what happens when someone in your…