I was my 84-year-old mom’s live-in caregiver until her death last October. We shared a home for...
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.
‘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...
360 Caregiver
https://youtu.be/D2tgY0yny30 Ariam Alula I returned to journalism school in 2018 to be a part of...
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...
Gen-X Women Are Caught in a Generational Tug-of-War
On that day, and just about every day these past few months, I had to choose between caring for...
The girl I didn’t save
No one ever uses the word dying, even if it’s the correct word to use. We think this denial of the...
The cartoonist drawing comics about his mother’s Alzheimer’s
When Ted Rall’s mother started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it meant that Rall, who is...
How and why we decided to have kids
Being young and married usually comes with an expectation that children will follow. I’m going to...
After His Mother Died, Adam Smith Found The Secret in the Freezer
It's hard for Adam Smith, 37, to say whether Barbara had been a good mother. Growing up, he and...
More help needed for kids with disabilities who age out of care system, parents say
For most adults, their 21st birthday is an exciting time marking another step toward independence....
I Don’t Want to Be Your Caregiver, I Want to Be Your Wife
I'm a huge fan of Esther Perel's podcast, Where Should We Begin? Almost two years ago her husband...
Sean Hayes Talks About the Struggles of Being a Caregiver: “It Was One of the Hardest Things I’ve Ever Done”
Sean Hayes is speaking out about a topic close to his heart: caregiving for his mother during her...
What I learned after 20 years of chronic illness
Since I’d initially feared I might have cancer, these diagnoses were initially a great relief to...
The Lingering of Loss
She’d found out she had leukemia right about when I started trying to get pregnant. Her cells...
Kimberly Williams-Paisley Says Her Mother’s Battle With Alzheimer’s Disease Taught Her to Say ‘Yes’ to Life
Kimberly Williams-Paisley is “busy, busy, busy, ” she says on her one day off in Vancouver. But...
The Strange Political Silence On Elder Care
Millions of middle-aged women struggle to care for ailing older relatives, and the crisis is only...
The Challenge of Caring for a Stroke Patient
A young woman’s struggle to help a husband whose brain was suddenly scrambled. Kelly Baxter was 36...
The night the lights went out
I wasn’t awake for all the scary parts of my injury, but everyone I loved was. When I finally came...
Director Stacy Title Is Racing Against ALS to Make Her Final Movie
There were times, he admitted, that it seemed as if “I could be a chimp or a robot, as long as I...
My mother told me it would take 5 years to ‘get over’ her death. Here’s where I’m at a decade later.
The cruel irony of losing your mother is that right after her death is when you will need her the...
Looking Back – Seven Years After Septic Shock
Yesterday was a hard day. Unfortunately, Facebook always reminds me every year in my memories when...
Losing my dad to dementia
https://youtu.be/ICo3lpQS2ck Ken jr wanted to share this video of him and his dad with our...
How Do You Think About Death?
what if we reframe things, so that we see life, instead of death, as the mind-bending part? Writes...
My dad and I both lost our spouses young. He’s helping me heal one breakfast at a time
When Marjorie's husband had a health scare, it was her father who looked it over and asked her the...