As Deborah Koehneke sees it, she has two full-time jobs. One is director of medical clinics in Hillsdale, Michigan. The other is caregiver to her 87-year-old mother with chronic lung... Continue
If you're like many of today's young retirees, you may feel sandwiched between the needs of your adult children and your aging parents. Just as you're beginning to enjoy your retirement, you may find yourself tasked with clearing out a... Continue
Shirley Tulin, 93, feels lucky that her adult children don't make care decisions or call the shots for her. The former social worker knows it's not always that way. Friends tell her that their adult children treat them like children.... Continue
The prevalence of dementia is undisputed—5.6 million alone in the U.S.—and those numbers are about to swell. The oldest of the estimated 73 million boomers turns 74 this year. The result will be countless Alzheimer's and other... Continue
Even when it’s rewarding, taking care of parents can be challenging. When it’s your in-laws, it can be even trickier. Not a shock to most, the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law dynamic can be the most highly charged. For her book What... Continue
For more than a decade, I was a long-distance caregiver to my mother and mother-in-law. In my mother’s column: two strokes, two middle-of-the-night blood clot surgeries, and a raging staph infection. In my mother-in-law’s: cancer, hand... Continue
Denise Brown is a healthy 53-year-old who also happens to be the founder of the website caregiver.com. Divorced and without kids, she has decided that by the time she is 70, she will move into a Chicago retirement community that offers... Continue
Picture this: My mother is in rehab in Connecticut. She is recovering from two surgeries for blood clots followed by a third for a raging staph infection. My brother, who retired in his 50s and lives ten minutes from my mother, announces... Continue
