Category: Decision Points


  • These reflections are written from the perspective of someone with long-term involvement in caregiving, disability, aging, and family systems across multiple roles and life stages, including supporting an older adult parent with significant health needs. This guide focuses on how to decide when home-based care is no longer the best option. When people ask whether…

  • These reflections are written from the perspective of someone with long-term involvement in caregiving, disability, aging, and family systems across multiple roles and life stages, including supporting an older adult parent with significant health needs. This guide focuses on recognizing when a caregiving situation cannot continue as it is. Caregiving does not usually become unsustainable…

  • These reflections are written from the perspective of someone with long-term involvement in caregiving, disability, aging, and family systems across multiple roles and life stages, including supporting an older adult parent with significant health needs. This guide focuses on how much time caregiving actually requires across different situations.  When people ask how many hours caregiving…

  • These reflections are written from the perspective of someone with long-term involvement in caregiving, disability, aging, and family systems across multiple roles and life stages, including supporting an older adult parent with significant health needs. This guide focuses on whether full-time work and caregiving can realistically be managed together. Many people try to balance a…