Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Here’s the scene. You are facing a life-and-death situation in which you are suddenly in charge of people’s lives and livelihoods. You have no training for the situation and no help appears to be on the way. You have no real authority but full responsibility. Resources are limited to only what you have at hand. …
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To say we are unchanged by caregiving events is to deny an essential part of what it is to be human. We grow from events until the day we die.
Caregiving takes out so much of us that we can get lost - literally. In the same way that we have to bring intention to self-care activities like eating, adding a few daily activities can help restore some of our selves without neglecting any of our caregiving chores.
When I first started taking care of Dad, there was not a lot of resources for caregivers. Dementia had been around as a diagnosis for a long time but little attention had been paid to people who cared for these patients at home. Thankfully that has changed a lot these days.
Dad's Back 