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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Faces of Caregiving
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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