Roz Chast’s graphic novel about caregiving in four cartoons
New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast, who has used whimsy, brutal honesty and inner-dialogue humor to look at life's little and big issues, has brought it...
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Faces of Caregiving
Becoming a caregiver to someone younger than yourself
Most of us spend years mentally preparing for the fact that we will eventually have to care for our aging parents. But for millions of...
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Caring for the one in the mirror
Caring for a loved one or friend who is injured or incapacitated is among the most challenging work there is. It requires infinite patience, physical...
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From shadowing to sundowning: saying a long goodbye to my spouse
I just needed to go to the bathroom. But even those few minutes of privacy were impossible. When I went into my closet, the bathroom...
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My parents were taken away from me. Twice.
Both of my parents died with dementia – my father in 2012, and my mother in 2015. The two people who had loved me so...
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I have a 6-year-old, an 8-year-old and an 83-year-old.
Since my mom’s diagnosis with dementia six years ago, I find myself often referring to her as my third child. I set up playdates for...
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CBS’s Chip Reid: Cherishing the moments after moving my mother to assisted living
I recently moved my 87-year-old mother from independent living to assisted living. It was a tough decision, but she’d had two bad falls and often...
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Hilarity for Charity’s Lauren Miller Rogen: “I am a caregiver for a caregiver”
It’s taken me many years to fully understand what it means to be a caregiver. In the early years of my mom’s battle with Alzheimer’s...
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Caring for my mother with dementia made me fear getting older; interviewing active nonagenarians gave me new perspective
As a freelance writer, I assigned myself an interview that was to change my perspective. A friend of mine had a neighbor who was an...
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