Caring for Ageing Parents and Your Marriage
Marriages may suffer as caring for ageing parents demands their ongoing attention. However, good communication and planning can help ease the transition.
Marriages may suffer as caring for ageing parents demands their ongoing attention. However, good communication and planning can help ease the transition.
Becoming a caregiver involves major changes that can easily feel overwhelming. Consider these suggestions to help ease the emotional and physical strain.
Elder abuse can be hard to define, and difficult to spot. However, there are several clues to recognising and preventing the abuse of the elderly.
What would it take to help an ageing parent maintain the greatest possible sense of his own human dignity, worth, and independence?
Question: We’re considering taking my elderly mother into our home rather than placing her in a nursing facility. This decision is especially difficult because we still have three children living…
Question: Can you tell me what it means to “honour” a parent who has become increasingly cranky, feisty, disagreeable, and demanding as a result of Alzheimer’s disease and the ageing…