My perspective on being in the Sandwich Generation is that of an only child. An only child with no extended family. Both my mother and my grandmother were only children, and, my father’s brothers are/were significantly older, and, therefore their children, my cousins, are a lot older than I am, and, I don’t know […]
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CNN Money has an excellent article, Sandwich Generation: Surviving the midlife tug of war.
Though it has a financial emphasis, it’s full of links to resources in such topics as where to find eldercare help, financial planning, nursing homes, assisted living, and more.
Sometimes I think we forget just how many resources there are out there, and, […]
So.
Remember my uncle? My father’s 86 year old brother, the one who’s been in the ICU with pneumonia?
The one who’s still there, and, weak and stuff? The one who apparently has no money, and, is really depressed about what he’s going to do, and, who thinks he’s going to die soon?
Yeah, him.
That’s the same uncle […]
Since my mother died, my father has, by default, taken over some of her roles.
It’s more than just the practical things such as grocery shopping, bill paying, and laundry (actually he’s better at laundry than I am, but, that’s beside the point, and, actually, not very hard to do), it’s more of the motherly and […]
This made me chuckle:
In the care-giving of aged parents, there is often an “It,” the child who takes on the primary responsibility for decision-making and arrangements for aged parents. When in my clinic I ask children who are accompanying parents if they are “It,” they often smile knowingly and answer yes. Unlike the playground […]
Tonight, NBC Nightly News, with Brian Williams, begins a series on caring for aging parents.
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I discovered a great resource in the Time Goes By ElderMovie List. Ronni Bennett, of Time Goes By, is an excellent writer, and, covers “what it’s really like to get older” is compiling a list of movies that are:
Films about being old or growing old
Films with elder characters that are respectfully portrayed and well-acted
Films that […]
My uncle is in the ICU at the hospital. My father has talked to him a couple of times. Yesterday, he sounded pretty good, but, today doesn’t seem to have been quite as good.
He has three daughters, one is in town with him, and, one has flown there to be with him, and, the other […]
I never told you a lot about my mother’s death, but, actually, it was pretty amazing, as far as these things go, and, since the b5 Media Family and Relationships Channel’s Blog Carnival theme is “love”, I figured this was as good of a time as any to tell you about it.
She was very ill […]
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