My father and I have not been especially close for all of my adult life because of his inability...
Category: Generation X
Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, is in peak sandwich generation years: kids at home, with increasing eldercare responsibilities. They’re also taking on increasing responsibilities for disabled siblings and spouses.
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Children With Disabilities Need Sex Ed Too
Currently, only three states in the country explicitly include special ed students in their sex-ed...
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Eve turned 14, had a growth spurt, began to feel tired often, talk to us less, and took longer to...
Why Are Boomer Parents Always Withholding Important Family News?
The only time Taylor has ever felt her mother withheld information from her was when doctors found...
Rosie Could Be a Riveter Only Because of a Care Economy. Where Is Ours?
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary,...
The Crushing Weight of ‘Sandwich Caregiving’
When Sade Dozan discovered she was pregnant, her parents moved closer, with the intention of...
I lost my son six months ago
Fourteen years ago, I remember taking my son home from the NICU. The way the world currently...
Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre
Tired and on edge, I was worried by rumblings from my husband Brad’s doctors that they might send...
When It Comes to Caregiving, Women Are Already Toast
In despair, I typed “caregiver” into Google, planning to follow it up with “resources” or “support...
Emma Dowling examines the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties
As the care crisis intensifies, we are repeatedly urged to take care of ourselves. Ubiquitous,...
Dad, a Death Sentence and the Planner Who Set Us Straight
During my dad’s illness, I experienced firsthand what had, until then, just been book learning:...
The Pandemic Offers a Chance to Reimagine Caregiving
Our current conversation about caregiving, driven by school shutdowns, Covid outbreaks in nursing...
Caregiving In The Time Of COVID
Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of...
Anyone’s Son
Cody was having a bad day. He felt suicidal. He got drunk. He brought a gun with him — not...
Lisa Raitt on taking care of her husband as he struggles with young-onset Alzheimer’s
In the early hours of the morning, Bruce Wood will wake up next to his wife, former Conservative...
Saying I Do, And Saying Farewell
In 2010, after two years together as a couple, during which we almost broke up once, we learned...
What to do about Ahav?
How would she get help for a boy who is Black and mentally ill and already vulnerable to some of...
A Case For Frequent Flyers
Over a period of 14 years of caring for my son, we had moved twice; three provinces, three unique...
On Alternative Forms of Communal Care and Expanded Kinship Circles
We need not look far to find cultures where caring kinships have been arranged differently....
How I met my mother: dementia brought back her true self
My father’s father talked to everyone, including the figurines on the sideboard, and he sometimes...
‘I am mine’: This is what Alzheimer’s is like at 41
Four years ago, Jo was diagnosed with dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease, an extremely rare...
U.S. Caregivers Struggle With Coronavirus in More Ways Than One
Christensen, 56, is his dad’s primary caregiver. The role requires him to traverse the street...
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...