by External Article | Apr 21, 2022 | Caring for a Parent, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving |
Just lately it is even harder to stay in my house, my geographical middle. This is because my siblings and I are sharing caregiving duties for our elderly mother, trying to help her stay in her own house, which is a twenty-minute drive northwest from my suburban... 
by External Article | Feb 26, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving, Planning |
During my dad’s illness, I experienced firsthand what had, until then, just been book learning: Financial planners are often at their best when your life is at its worst. Almost immediately, my siblings and I found ourselves out of our depth on a number of levels.... 
by External Article | Jan 22, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finances, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
When a fire broke out in the home John’s parents shared, his father managed to escape the fire while his mom, his dad’s caregiver, died in the fire. For some reason, my father, who is 83, couldn’t get his chair to move. He was trying to drive it off the... 
by External Article | Dec 1, 2010 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
Few subjects generate as much contention and heartache hereabouts as siblings and the role they play, or don’t play, in caring for aging parents. Which led me to wonder: What about those absent children? What’s the view from their side of the divide? In Ms. Barnes’s... 
by External Article | Oct 19, 2010 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
Research shows that even when there are several adult children, just one (a daughter, usually) emerges as the so-called primary caregiver and handles the bulk of her parents’ care. But Ms. Milgram-Bossong finds that minor consolation. “Even if I had a sibling in... 
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