Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of...
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.
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...
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...
‘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...