Even before the coronavirus, caregiving had become Sade Dozan’s every day. About a year and a half...
Category: Caring for a Parent
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...
My mom cared for my dad at home until the house fire that took her life
When a fire broke out in the home John's parents shared, his father managed to escape the fire...
Patients Want To Die At Home, But Home Hospice Care Can Be Tough On Families
Even though surveys show it's what most Americans say they want, dying at home is "not all it's...
Are you a caregiver sandwich?
As the summer comes to a close and the school year revs up, one category of caregivers faces...
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...
In Your Corner: A Cancer Caregiver’s Survival Guide
In 2014, I had just gotten remarried. The future looked so bright. Rewind several years before...
Getting Ready
Standing at the door to my bedroom, my father stood in his dark blue suit tapping his foot while...
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,...
Why Women Go Missing From The Workforce – And What To Do About It
Taking care of a loved one who is sick or has a disability can easily be a full-time job that...
Gourmand
Although many things have changed about my father in the last few years, his willfulness is not...
I’m a Former Caretaker and The Joker Movie Was Pretty Right On About Society
As a former caretaker, The Joker movie hit me in a raw way. I think the movie accurately portrays...
How to talk about death
There are a lot of articles out there telling you how to talk to your family about death as if...