The tradition of keeping everything in the family is an amiable labor of love, but it is making...
Category: Caring for a Grandparent
The unequal financial burden for Black caregivers
Carlo St. Juste Jr. is on his way to bring his mother to a hospital appointment when he takes...
She Is 96 and Does Not Fear Her Death. But Do Her Children?
It is one of the most vexing chapters of old age: how to navigate not just the inevitable ending,...
Tough conversations are the best conversations
Earlier this year, my grandmother was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and was told she...
Does life ever get easier?
Sometimes it's just one thing after another, for months and then years. How do you make it...
Love and Lapses
It's hard to change roles after living a certain way for decades. Dementia -- and aging in general...
Empty space
Moving out of a home and seeing that empty space where you used to always has a sad, beautiful...
Caregiving Tips for Traveling with Seniors
Traveling with your family and friends can be a truly fantastic experience. However, it also calls...
Do you remember? A fun way to reminisce with the person you are caring for
Do you remember playing with your mother’s or grandmother’s button jar as a child? As small...
What the loss of my mum taught me about the burden of care on young women
One of the most important things that losing my mum has taught me is that the burden of care falls...
How Family Caregivers Make Career and Elder Care Work
With the number of working Americans caring for an aging parent growing, you might expect that...
10 Rules We Can Learn From Aging Parents Now
We watch elderly parents make choices we swear we would NEVER do. Yet so many of our aging loved...
Grandma’s Dementia Made Her Forget Her Homophobia
After watching the way my mom’s family had treated her [after she came out], my own coming out was...
With love, Grandma
I didn’t really realize it was issue. I mean there were signs here and there, but nobody can have...
Changing ‘the tragedy narrative’: Why a growing camp is promoting a more joyful approach to Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer's is now the diagnosis Americans fear most. Fewer than half of patients diagnosed with...
Inheritance delayed
01 Do I Know You? R.L. Gibson 16” x 20” Xerography (mixed media) 2014 02 But Now I See R.L. Gibson...
5 Simple Ways to Keep Seniors Safe at Home
Help Your Senior Stay Safe at Home Using These 5 Tips Aging in place independently can be a...
The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care
When do we owe people the full truth about their lives? What happens when people cannot understand...
Substance Abuse in Seniors: Prevention Tips and Treatment Options
The opioid epidemic has cost the government $1 trillion since 2001, but this isn’t just an issue...
You are not your meat suit
Describing seniors as "cute" is demeaning. When you're designing for a cute little old lady,...
The Boxed Generation: Caring and Coping on All Sides
Baby Boomers and Gen Xer’s had better get used to this complex reality, because their generations...
Navigating A Hospital Stay: A guide for caregivers and patients with cognitive loss
Most patients and their loved ones experience a wide range of emotions when confronted with a...
What keeps me going: Family
I'm not going to pretend that taking care of my dad is easy. It's exhausting. It's taken over my...
Rethinking My Broken Relationship with My Troubled Dad Now That He’s Dead
I knew my father abused drugs. I watched that man abuse drugs since I was five. I had memorized...