by External Article | Apr 27, 2021 | Care Work Library, Finances |
After Angelena Taylor’s father survived a stroke in late 2015, she snapped into crisis mode. A month into a master’s program for educational psychology, Taylor, now 33, took unpaid leave from her job. She didn’t want to send her dad to a facility, and his private... 
by External Article | Apr 10, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving, Sandwich Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Even before the coronavirus, caregiving had become Sade Dozan’s every day. About a year and a half ago, her parents moved close by to help Dozan, 30, and her husband, Michael, with their infant daughter in New Jersey. But soon after, her 69-year-old mother suffered a... 
by External Article | Apr 12, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Grief |
The cruel irony of losing your mother is that right after her death is when you will need her the most. My mother died a decade ago, when she was 57 and I was 21. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 9, but, for the most part, she made a full... by External Article | Sep 27, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Distance Caregiving |
My mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer on my parents’ 36th wedding anniversary. They called me together, while I was at work, to tell me the news. Our lives suddenly became very different lives. My parents live in Ohio. I live in Washington, D.C. That’s 364 miles.... 
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