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[Pauline] Boss, an emeritus professor of family social science — the study of families and close...
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At the height of the lockdown in Ottawa, Donna Thomson and her husband, Jim, went to visit their...
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When I was still young enough to pay attention to the things my mother and father said, I would...
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Hammer is dying. At seventy-nine, she has lived with cancer for thirteen years and has exhausted...
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This day came, and I went into the ALS Clinic on my own. The one time I did. I went to spend a...
I love languages. I teach Spanish, speak Italian, understand Catalan and read French and...
My 92-year-old father fell one Saturday night a few months ago. My mother could not pick him up....
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We rarely depict older people as sexual. When we do, it’s usually as a joke. The image of the...
The priest boomed, “Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband, to have and to hold, in...
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For most adults, their 21st birthday is an exciting time marking another step toward independence....
Through her long illness, I was Joan’s primary family-carer. I had devoted my professional life as...
Once in the throes of caregiving, it is easy to get lost in the mire of all the moving parts. It...
Since mid-January, Marjorie has been Bob Dettmer’sround-the-clock caretaker. Bob is fogged in by...
Karen Herzog, a retired high school teacher, bought a long-term care insurance policy 12 years ago...