by External Article | Jan 11, 2023 | Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving |
“Your mother,” he told us, “has multiple sclerosis.” Whatever that was. I carried on with my day like any other on that trip, going swimming, having some beers by the beach. No discernible changes darkened my mood. Looking back, I ask: Had he failed to explain the... 
by External Article | May 24, 2022 | Death & Dying |
Quinn empathized with her mother, who feared both a rapid and slow decline. Eva was living in a care home in Victoria when she requested medical assistance in dying (MAID). At 100, she could see the writing on the wall, and she didn’t want to be bedridden. “My brother... 
by External Article | Jul 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning |
While Jewish tradition maintains that human life is of infinite value and that its preservation and extension overrides virtually every other religious imperative, relieving pain and allowing for the soul’s peaceful departure are also values well-established in Jewish... 
by External Article | May 6, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying |
I remember the day in May 2017 when my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer. When the oncologist left the room, I turned to Clarence and said, “There’s been a mix-up. This isn’t your file.” I meant every word. Maybe that’s how it is when you’ve been married a... 
by Guest Author | Jan 23, 2020 | Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying |
This day came, and I went into the ALS Clinic on my own. The one time I did. I went to spend a couple of hours being instructed on dealing with a feeding tube. The success of the feeding tube, and staying at home—the ultimate carrot—was dependent on my learning to... 
by External Article | Mar 20, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying |
Debra wanted her affairs to be in order. Her small home was quiet, save for the beeps and vibrations coming from her late-husband David’s cellphone: alarms reminding her when to eat, when to take her medications, when to water the plants. In the mornings and evenings,... 
by Kaiser Health News | Aug 25, 2017 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying |
By JoNel Aleccia Bill Harris is blunt: For more than a year, he has been trying to help his wife die. The 75-year-old retired tech worker says it’s his duty to Nora Harris, his spouse of nearly four decades, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in... 
by Kaiser Health News | Mar 16, 2017 | Caregiver News |
In the seven months since California’s aid-in-dying law took effect, Dr. Lonny Shavelson has helped nearly two dozen terminally ill people end their lives with lethal drugs — but only, he says, because too few others would. Shavelson, director of a Berkeley, Calif.... 
by External Article | Dec 1, 2016 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caregiver Burnout, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Sibling, Death & Dying, Finding Caregiver Support, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, The Paid Perspective |
A family and their home health aids tells the story of their brother (and son) jumping off his balcony and sustaining a TBI. They’ll never know what caused him to do it. What happens next? What choices did they have to make about his care? How do they keep him... 
by External Article | Apr 7, 2016 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Neighbor, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning, Grief |
Janet Adkins, a fifty-four-year-old English teacher, decided to make herself gone before the disease got the chance. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she was Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s first client. A minister friend asked me recently about my grandfather. I... 
by External Article | May 13, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Death & Dying, Silent generation |
[O]ver a roughly 25-year span, my father, Phillip I. Lerner, acted as the primary doctor for his relatives several times. All of the physicians agreed that the prognosis was grim, but that was not enough for my father. Pearl’s worst fear, which she had often stated,... 
by External Article | May 20, 2012 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Finances, Generation X, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
I didn’t need to be schooled in the realities of long-term care: The costs for my mother, who is 86 and who, for the past eighteen months, has not been able to walk, talk, or to address her most minimal needs and, to boot, is absent a short-term memory, come in at... 
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