I am a single mom caring for my semi-paralysed father in India and supporting my two sons. In...
Category: Caring for a Parent
My Mother Has Dementia. Here’s What I’ve Learned From Caring For Her For 8 Years.
I was 27 when I left my first full-time job to care for my mother when she was diagnosed with...
Caregiver — Don’t Cry Momma “Gone With The Wind”
It was a late October morning, 2005, and there was a crisp chill in the air. Couldn't decide if I...
How we dealt with uncertainty and a virus
How we dealt with uncertainty, And a virus in our life, For fifteen years. And emerged as...
I’m 25 and Taking Care of My Sick Dad. I’ve Never Felt Less Alone.
But unlike those who just moved home to wait out COVID-19, I’ve been home for the last two years....
Honor Thy Father
“I am in a bind. I have a problem and I need your help,” came the voice over the telephone. My...
Clocking In: ‘Would You Change My Mother’s Diaper for $10 an Hour?’
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
Clocking In: ‘Would You Change My Mother’s Diaper for $10 an Hour?’
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
Dealing With Caregiver Guilt During The Coronavirus Crisis
As a person caregivers regularly turn to for support, Carol Zernial would seemingly have answers...
“Did I Mess This Up?” A Father Dying From Coronavirus, a Distraught Daughter and a Midnight Rescue.
Terrified residents, families and staff of the Queens Adult Care Center have watched helplessly as...
Should You Bring Mom Home From Assisted Living During The Pandemic?
With the coronavirus moving through facilities that house older adults, families across the...
Isolation and ‘impossible choices’: When caregiving goes into lockdown
Even before the coronavirus, caregiving had become Sade Dozan’s every day. About a year and a half...
5 Things I Wish My Friends Knew About My Life as a Caregiver
It was 2003. I had just turned 16, and that was the summer my mom was diagnosed with ovarian...
What My Mom (And HIV) Taught Me About Caregiving
You don’t know what you’re really made of until you have to take care of someone you love while...
How to get siblings to step up and help
So often the duties of caregiving fall on a single family member, even when there are other people...
What obligation do we owe our shitty fathers as they age?
They may have been monsters when we were growing up. But now they’re old, frail and not long for...
Visiting My Sick Mom Could Put Her Life at Greater Risk. But How Many More Times Will I Get to See Her?
I live on the East Coast; my mother lives on the West. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I...
What My Mom (And HIV) Taught Me About Caregiving
I was my 84-year-old mom’s live-in caregiver until her death last October. We shared a home for...
The Caregiver’s Encyclopedia
I'd just finished Muriel Gillick's Old and Sick in America, an eye-opening 'narrative tour' of the...
How to Help Comfort a Loved One During a Hospital Stay
Follow these tips to make their hospital stay as easy as possible.
‘It’s Pretty Brutal’: The Sandwich Generation Pays a Price
When Tanya Brice’s mother moved into her apartment in Owings Mills, Md., five years ago, she was...
Caregiving can be traumatic
In 1997, I took a two-year leave of absence from my position as a School Social Worker. This...
Familism is Making our Latinx Caregivers Sick
The tradition of keeping everything in the family is an amiable labor of love, but it is making...
Similes Replacing Smiles…for Now
Dementia is like a thief, Victims are robbed, that is true Like a ship that strikes the reef, And...