In today's chatty Washington Post Reliable Source column, which leads with the blurb "An Elder Statesman's Wisdom of the Aged,” Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts called attention to a speech Senator Robert Byrd gave from the floor of the Senate yesterday, June 28. Byrd's speech was in response to some recent articles... Read more
This February, I got my first ever summons for jury duty. It's amazing I've lived these many decades without being summoned. My first reaction was negative. Why now? I'm too busy! However, I knew I had no choice, so I made peace with it. Then I got my appearance dates. The first was cancelled. My second was not. A funny thing... Read more
I’ve been asked to speak to a group about “parenting your parents.” I do a lot of public speaking and the people who ask mean well. This particular phrase is often used and is a kind of shorthand for what happens when we have to start making decisions for our elders. I have begun to ask that they use a different term.Even when an elder is... Read more
November is National Family Caregivers Month and National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month During my two decades of caring for seven elders, family caregiving was considered just what you do, if you are a good person, and you shouldn’t complain or even mention the fact that you are depressed, exhausted, frustrated and that all of this is made... Read more
It is common that one adult child of a family assumes most of the responsibility for the care on the elders. Often, it’s the one who lives closest to the elder, but not always. Susan, a woman I interviewed for Minding Our Elders, lives 300 miles away from her mother, while she has two siblings that live in her mother’s town. Yet, Susan... Read more
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