For most adults, their 21st birthday is an exciting time marking another step toward independence....
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.
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...
Here if you need me
When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become? When fighting on behalf of...
How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick
For my wife, a drive is never just a drive, because she struggles with a set of illnesses that are...
Married, Paralyzed and Moving On
Three weeks after Rachel Swidenbank and Hiroki Takeuchi got married, an accident changed...
Tragedy in a love story
Being put in the position to make a life or death decision is something I would have never dreamed...
Lean INto Lonely, Kysa Kelleher
We love the work Kate Milliken did with MyCounterpane. Here's a really honest, wonderful interview...
Fighting through the storm is worth it
My newly acquired caregiver role includes being chauffeur for Mom’s health appointments and...
Who calls the shots?
I turned forty-three years old last month. Yay, me. Birthdays have never been particularly...
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Voicemails seemed so archaic. And then his mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. And then she was...
The ultimate guide to starting your own blog about caregiving
Are you ready to share your experience of taking care of someone? Have you been thinking about...