Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Managing the daily realities of caregiving is a balancing act. Between managing medications, navigating insurance bureaucracies, and handling daily personal care, the workload is inherently heavy. Our primary responsibility often boils down to managing the ordinary, messy details of life. Superheroes exist only in fiction. Out here in the real world, caregiving requires practical execution, …
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When people think about caregiving, they often imagine the big, heavy moments: medical appointments, medications, emergencies, end-of-life decisions. What doesn’t get talked about as much are the smaller, quieter skills we develop along the way—the ones that don’t come with instructions but shape us just as deeply. One of those skills is learning how to …
I have posted about loss before, as it concerns family and caregiving. Loss of personhood of a loved one due to the ravages of dementia. Loss of who we, the caregivers, were before the demands of the job changed us. There is also the ultimate loss to death that we know approaches but work so …
Role reversals, when younger family member(s) assume parental duties over a parent, are just part of the caregiving landscape. Most of us do not like them. We probably did not want them in the first place. Yet here we all are. Meltdown on Aisle 3 Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Who knew that wanting …
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