My friend, Suebob’s parents had the “Serious Discussion” with her.
No, not that talk, the one about aging parents.
Her parents are having to make some tough decisions about what they want to do and where they want to live.
It’s always a bit unsettling to have to do that, but getting it out on […]
One of my favorite people and writers, Metro Dad, lost his beloved father-in-law to cancer today.
You must read Pierre’s beautiful tribute.
My condolences to the family.
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I really enjoyed reading Sara Henry’s Toast to Aging Well about her father.
He just turned 75 and he lives far away from his daughter, and like so many sandwich generationers, she was unable to join him because her own young son was having a birthday as well.
It sounds like he has a great party […]
Over at Sometimes I Feel Like A Piece of Bologna, Pat needs some advice about her elderly mother:
What I’m increasingly running into is Mom’s lack of “getting it” that her energy levels are quickly declining. She will run errands, try to flip a mattress (seriously!), pull weeds, or clean the house. Then she’s so tired […]
There’s an insightful story in Newsweek by Anne Kennedy Rickover: Bringing Home Mom and Dad.
Rickover moved her aging parents close to her home and compares it to a pregnancy, with preparation, birth, growth and eventually leaving:
At the beginning of this “pregnancy,” just as at the beginning of all my pregnancies, I read. When I was […]
Psychology Today has a blog about only children.
As you are probably well aware from here, I’m an only child, whan to know more? On Being an Only Child, by me.
Anyway, they cover a topic that is near and dear to my cold, sinling-less little heart: aging parents having to rely on an only child.
During […]
Int eh New York Times, Jane Gross gives us an enlightening look at, What I Wish I Had Done Differently when caring for her aging mother.
She learned some things, but the common theme of them all is, like we talk about here is plan ahead so you don’t have to make decisions in haste. […]
In what I hope doesn’t become another entry for the “What Now?” files, my dad informed me that he has to have a colonoscopy.
Now, while it’s good practice for people of a certain age to get them at prescribed intervals, this came up rather suddenly.
It’s routine-ish, but still, so was my mother’s carotid […]
Financial elder abuse is a growing problem and it affects seniors in all socio-economic and cultural groups.
People take advantage of seniors who may be unaware of a problem, afraid of the abuser, ashamed of being “tricked”, confused or simply trusting of the abuser.
It can happen to anyone as Suebob found out. Her parents are […]
We’re on vacation at the beach with my dad and my mother-in law.
I felt like I hadn’t seen my husband this whole trip and I couldn’t figure out why.
Then it dawned on me that one of us has to be with the kids (swimming and at the beach) and the other one has to […]
Parents to the left of me, children to the right, here I am.
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