Worry Sandwich
When 60-year-olds take care of 92-year-old parents and 16-year-old kids, it’s a worry sandwich. Middle-aged women are less likely to be happy. The bleak scenario doesn’t surprise Deb Rubenstein, a...
View ArticleCaring for Parents
More than 15 million Americans, mostly middle-aged, are caring for their parents. “There is a myth out there that families abandon their frail elders,” said Dr. Robert L. Kane, a geriatrician at the...
View ArticleWebcams and sensors for sole seniors
Sue Shellenberger is following three trends she says are gaining momentum, just in time to counter the discontented more people feel with their work-life balance Reasons to Hold Out Hope for Balancing...
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Virtual Family Dinner
Technology to serve up virtual family dinners for elderly, caregivers. It sounds like a pretty good idea The technology consulting company Accenture is developing a system called “The Virtual Family...
View ArticleWhere’s Pop?
A good round-up in the New York Times of the technological tools that allow older people to live on their own yet still under the watchful, loving eye of their adult children. That’s a lot of people,...
View ArticleBecoming the Parent of your Parent
In a 5-part series, USA Today and ABC news collaborate on Role Reversal, Your Aging Parents and You the story of millions of Americans caring for elderly parents and maneuvering “the murky worlds of...
View ArticleForeigners or Nuns
When the family tree becomes a beanpole, there’s no one left to take care of the old folk. So, Italy’s Aged Turn to Foreigners for Care Marzano is one of a swelling number of Italians entrusting...
View ArticleFamilies in the ICU
We all need our advocates who understand us when we’re sick and in the hospital. We also need people who love us. So this is good news. ICUs’ New Message: Welcome, Families (Wall St Journal, link...
View ArticleMen as caregivers
Dr. Helen focuses on Dutiful Sons who are “quietly and without complaining” taking care of their parents. Then she quotes Mark Penn, author of “Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big...
View ArticleBrain Atrophy
Adults caring for their elderly parents are sometimes embarrassed by a parent’s racist remarks that appear completely out of character or a sudden penchant to travel to Indian casinos to gamble too...
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