Are YOU still struggling with your adult siblings, arguing over your aging parents’ care — at the time when you most need to pull together as a family? Need help? Start with these three tips: 1. Talk, ask, talk, listen, talk, plan. Talk to your parents and also
Hot Chocolate, staying warm by the fire, listening to holiday music are all things people typically enjoy during the frosty winter season. Clearing snow, getting frostbitten, living with runny noses and falling on slippery ice are all things most people would rather do without. Falls present one of the most
Do your senior parents take 3 hours to get past the login screen on their computer? Do they hear you talking to Siri and look at you like you’ve lost your mind? Is it any wonder that some of our parents look at technology as if it’s some strange disease they
Do you remember when you were a kid, how excited you would get about the holidays, your birthday or the annual trip you all took to the mountains? Did you have family rituals or fun activities that you and your parents reminisce about and can still enjoy together? Now that
Imagine parenting in a world without information or support anywhere you turn, just more confusion. Hear your colicky baby crying non-stop while your 2 year-old son is drawing with crayons on the wall. See your house in disarray with toys threatening to knock you down because you’ve had almost no
“invisible patient,” the one supporting an elderly family member with dementia or a heart condition or diabetes — or all of the above. Given that there are currently 43.5 million people providing this kind of support to adults ages 50 and older, and that without them the long-term care system
Of course we all want to do what’s best for our aging parents — just as we always wanted to do what was best for our kids. But it can be confusing. On the one hand, as loving family members, we want to consistently support as much independent living as
If you think that life just goes downhill after you turn a certain age, think again! A great article came out in the New York Times about how we actually get happier the older that we get. Tension and anxiety lesson and we seem to deal with situations and
Do you ever struggle, trying to see eye-to-eye with one or more of your aging parents? Does it sometimes seem as if you’re from different worlds? Or at least different cultures? Maybe what’s missing is that you no longer have similar interests, ideas and opinions — but maybe you never
“Alzheimer’s is the cleverest thief, because she not only steals from you, but she steals the very thing you need to remember what’s been stolen. ” ― Jarod Kintz One of the greatest challenges of caring for your aging parents is the onset of debilitating illnesses like the form