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 the early signs that caregiving demands are becoming too much. Caregiving responsibilities often increase gradually. In…
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 what it means to choose not to take on a caregiving role. Caregiving is often framed…
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…