Soon after my 50th birthday, 10 years ago, I started keeping a list of “Things I will do/things I...
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Sandwich Generation: How Do You Decide Whose Needs Come First?
Your parents need your help right now, and so do your adult kids. But what about saving for your...
Some young adults with disabilities are stuck in long-term care. They say that’s discrimination.
For the past decade, [Victoria] Levack has lived, reluctantly, at the Arborstone Enhanced Care...
What Is Compassion Fatigue?
“Since the pandemic, individuals are coping with so many different forms of stress that might be...
Should I Help My Aging, Ailing Dad Access His Toxic Web Feed?
My father and I have not been especially close for all of my adult life because of his inability...
Healthy Helping for Family Caregivers of Senior Parents
Gerontologists and psychology of aging experts say that “aging well” in your 60s and 70s is about...
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...
Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a...
Nursing home residents and staff are traumatized from the pandemic – collaborative care can help with recovery
For older adults, social isolation may have dredged up past traumas that are difficult to come...
Who Will Take Care of America’s Caregivers?
The nation’s caregiving work force is fraying. Paid providers are overworked and undervalued,...
What I’ve Learned Over a Lifetime of Caring for the Dying
Some of the hardest conversations I have in my work involve telling families managing the...
We can’t drug our way out of despair over Alzheimer’s
For over a century, people living with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers have been caught...
America isn’t taking care of caregivers
Dementia had not robbed Lillian of her fiercely independent spirit, but it had made her verbally...
A moment that changed me: my mother died – and I became my brother’s legal guardian
It was in Stansted airport’s Pink Elephant car park that I realised all the adults were going...
‘You’d walk out if your husband hit you – you can’t when it’s your child’
Most parents never have to worry about being attacked by a violent child, but if it happens, they...
My Mother, Before She Drank
My older sister and I eventually decided to involve our aunt to help figure out a way to save her....
The Autism Mom: Why Is She Like That?
The Autism Mom is an infamous villain in the autistic community. We are outraged that she wants to...
Making Your Workplace Safe for Grief
Grief doesn’t just come with sadness and loss. Grief can also come fully-loaded with guilt, anger,...
Care is Infrastructure and We Must Compensate Caregivers Accordingly
Donald was proud of his caregiving role. His mom had raised him and his siblings on her own, while...
How Much Must I Give Up for My Schizophrenic Brother?
One of my brothers is moderately schizophrenic; he does well on his medication but is increasingly...
Benefits and disability: ‘I’ll never cohabit again, to protect myself’
Benefits exist to support people in times of need. But for some disabled people, household...
What happened when a ‘wildly irrational’ algorithm made crucial healthcare decisions
Because of his cerebral palsy, the 40-year-old, who works at an environmental engineering firm and...
For the Disability Community, Britney Spears’ Situation Is All Too Familiar
It’s actually very difficult to end the conservatorship or guardianship under any circumstances....
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Is a Disability Rights Issue That Deserves More Attention
Under conservatorship, disabled adults face restrictions on a wide variety of rights: Where they...