Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Being a caregiver sometimes provides a limited view on getting older. Whether it is our elders getting older or ourselves, the realities of aging catches up with all of us. Being a “preacher’s kid” often placed me in communities of older individuals. I developed some useful social skills through chatting with the local grandparents as …
Maybe I am just more sensitive to people’s frustrations with life lately, but I see many struggling with trying to get the answer they want out of a question that has already provided an answer. They persist in pursuing the same problem, using the same methods, and yielding the same answer over and over again. …
As the light starts to glimmer in this tunnel called the pandemic, I am finding many of us changed by the experiences of the last year. Some of us are still frightened to death of being frightened to death, and some of us now see the world differently from before the beginning of the journey. …
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.
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