Kara Ward started her life as a caregiver earlier than most people do. She was only 29 when her...
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary,...
The words that I could not bring myself to admit bubbled to the surface: I have been preparing for...
I knew twins sometimes switched places and went to each other’s classes, waiting to see who’d...
I stopped buying into the veneer of toxic positivity once I became the primary caregiver to my...
In April of the pandemic, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was not an optimal moment...
As the care crisis intensifies, we are repeatedly urged to take care of ourselves. Ubiquitous,...
Gina became a caregiver at a young age. By age 6, she was emotionally responsible for her mother,...
After multiple biopsies over many weeks (Scott said he felt as if he were an Ikea desk being...
The Health Insurance Plot is a cousin to the Marriage Plot, which refers to a story that concludes...
I’ve spent the past decade and a half feeling afraid of where I might end up living when I get...
We need not look far to find cultures where caring kinships have been arranged differently....
My 21-month caregiving ended a couple of months ago when my mother passed away. Since that time, I...
For my whole life I have lived in a family where transparency about my mother and her illness was...
I was 27 when I left my first full-time job to care for my mother when she was diagnosed with...
How we dealt with uncertainty, And a virus in our life, For fifteen years. And emerged as...
A month before my grandfather William passed away, I sat beside him in the hospital, pushing a...
But unlike those who just moved home to wait out COVID-19, I’ve been home for the last two years....
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
An open letter to my mother in law about what it's truly like taking care of her mother. Where...
Even before the coronavirus, caregiving had become Sade Dozan’s every day. About a year and a half...
It was 2003. I had just turned 16, and that was the summer my mom was diagnosed with ovarian...
They may have been monsters when we were growing up. But now they’re old, frail and not long for...