One of the most tender gifts a caregiver can give an elder is a listening ear. Your attention, as the elder looks back with satisfaction, guilt, grief and awe at the decades she or he has lived, helps the person keep a sense of life’s purpose. To any individual, memories sum up the life they have lived. But, in order to truly count, these memories need to be shared.
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