Archive for July 9th, 2010

Is Mom a Sucker?

Sometimes a caregiver is a combination of maid, doctor, spiritual advisor and amateur detective.  It’s no secret that elderly people sometimes become more like teenagers and children then mature adults.  So, while we wish they wouldn’t do it, your senior citizen mom or dad may be hiding a few things from you. And one thing [...]

Taking Care of Yourself is Part of the Job

The job of becoming the primary caregiver for your aging parent is universally recognized as one of the most difficult transitions we will go through.  To start with, it’s hard to go through the reversal of parent and child.  All your life, mom or dad were the strong ones.  They were the ones you ran [...]

A Stressful Job

It’s an understatement that being a caregiver for an elderly loved one is stressful. And in general, by the time you accept that you are in the role of “primary caregiver”, the need to help your elderly parent is already advanced.  So you usually have some “catch up work” to do so you can establish [...]