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Churn

Churn

by External Article | Dec 1, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Housing, Occasional Caregiving | 0 comments

Nobody just “stops by” this house. My mother won’t let anyone she knows come near the outside, much less invite them in. When she had her breast cancer surgery seventeen years ago, she was waiting at the curb, bag packed, for me to take her to the hospital. It’s 2016...
The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding

by External Article | Mar 7, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Housing, Long Distance Caregiving, Millennial Generation | 0 comments

[S]ometimes the world would get the better of her, and her strong, fighter’s spirit would be dragged down deep, drowning in the smallness of the situation. Held near the bottom, unable to gasp for air in the liquid uncertainty of these passing moments, she never knew...
How to Care for an Elderly Hoarder

How to Care for an Elderly Hoarder

by Stefania Shaffer | Jun 14, 2017 | Caregiving 101 | 33 comments

Have you ever passed by one of those houses where the crooked garage doors are barely holding themselves together over the heaping bulge behind them? Then one day, on your usual stroll of the neighborhood, those garage doors are popped wide open for the whole world to...
Preparing for the gathering storm

Preparing for the gathering storm

by Arthur Roeser | Jul 18, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Parent, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Notes from the Problem Child, Planning | 4 comments

This is last part of Notes from the Problem Child, Arthur Roeser’s caregiving story. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, and part ten. I was helping mom where she couldn’t help herself....

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