Where Should Grandma Live?
Anyone who is charged with the task of caring for an aging parent, particularly the only surviving aging parent, faces a tough decision at some time in the time of their caregiver years. And that decision is whether to have mom or dad move in with you. When that idea first comes to mind, you can probably think of more negatives than positives. It really goes against your orientation since you moved out of your parent’s home as a youth. Since then your entire goal was to live separately from your parents, not to combine them again. How ...
When the End is near
Providing care for your adult parent during their retirement years can be a demanding job. And the job continues to become more demanding as your parent gets older and his or her health declines. You will have to make more and more difficult decisions as the end grows closer and many of them you will make without the consultation your elderly parent if his mental abilities have slipped away due to the affects of aging. If the senior citizen you are caring for is dealing with a terminal illness that lingers, those demands will become virtually overwhelming. When ...
When is it Time to Step in?
There comes a time in the adult lives of children and their parents when it dawns on you that you might have to step in and begin having a more active in your parent’s lives, not as a child but as a caregiver. For every family, that time seems to come as a shock. It’s strange because we all see reports on television about the transition that we go through when the parent becomes the dependent one and the child becomes the boss in the relationship. And the hardest part of that transition may be the first time you ...
We Are the Sandwich Generation
The generation born between 1950 and 1970 has often been called The Baby Boomer Generation. There have been some variations on that title including The Me Generation, The Vietnam Generation and even for the sake of a certain comedian, The Al Frankin Generation. But the title that is most appropriate to where we are now, as we become caregivers for our children as well as our aging parents is “The Sandwich Generation”. This is a painfully appropriate term because those of us in our late 40s to early 60s find ourselves with responsibilities to the two generations before and ...
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Where Should Grandma Live?
Anyone who is charged with the task of caring for an aging parent, particularly the only surviving aging...
When the End is near
Providing care for your adult parent during their retirement years can be a demanding job. And the job...
When is it Time to Step in?
There comes a time in the adult lives of children and their parents when it dawns on you that you might...
We Are the Sandwich Generation
The generation born between 1950 and 1970 has often been called The Baby Boomer Generation. There have...
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Senior Citizens Bill of Rights
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Managing Your Senior Citizen’s Medications
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