Category: Family Dynamics


  • 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 handle unplanned caregiving requests that disrupt your schedule. Last-minute requests are common in 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 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 why caregiving often falls on one person and what that creates over time. In many 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 how to set and maintain boundaries within caregiving situations.  Setting boundaries during caregiving is often necessary,…