As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
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As Our Parents Age is a blog that offers real life experiences of taking care of aging parents. As Our Parents Age is my effort to record the experiences of loving and living with aging parents, but it is also a vehicle to help my husband and me understand and learn more about aging parent caregiving and medical care.
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
When you decide to move you must also decide how your possessions will get from your old home to your new one. Some people I know have rented trucks. Others have sold much of their furniture and arrived in their new community ready to purchase new items. We decided, given the time constraints that we ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
When we returned home from our two-month dress rehearsal in early March we needed to accomplish a great deal. during the two months we had purchased a house that was to be our new home and expected it to be ready in mid-June. With about ten weeks to sell our house, pack up and move ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
For as long as I can remember, my parents planned to age in place in their home. They made me promise to support them in this endeavor, and I did. They understood initially that some situations — severe illness or extreme memory problems, for instance — might require their plans to be changed. But as ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
Two years ago I would not have thought it possible. A move after living for 38 years in one place? Probably not. Yet we aging boomers did it. For seven years we had been driving on a regular basis to visit our daughter, her husband, and her kids — our grandchildren. More than 500 miles ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
After living happily in their retirement community for nearly fifteen years, my parents were declining. My dad’s memory was weak, and my mom fell frequently. In their nineties, they ate almost every meal in one of the cafes and gradually ceased to use the various gadgets in their lives —the dishwasher, the c-pap mask, the humidifier, etc. Using ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
1y ago
Well, I thought that, given the support of my two parents throughout my years of blog writing on As Our Parents Age, I would keep writing until the end of their lives. However, it was not to be. I found that I wanted to protect them and help them live their last years in private ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
3y ago
So here we are in the middle of December 2020, nine months into the pandemic, with the United States still awash in CoVid-19. Those who care for others continue to stay home, social distance when not at home, plan trips outside the home carefully, wear masks, and probably pine away for the “olden days” when ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
3y ago
When the process of downsizing officially begins, attending to a life’s worth of possessions can take a long time. Decisions must be made about furniture, clothes, books, knick-nacks, household goods, vanity items, jewelry. Dealing with possessions, however, is the easy part. The most difficult time, at least from my perspective, comes near the end of ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
3y ago
My parents were married for 71 years. Over the past several years Dad experienced declining memory and mom declined physically. She helped him remember things (or remembered them for him), and Dad — even in his 90s he was still agile and quite strong — helped her move around, fetching things as needed so she ..read more
As Our Parents Age | Timely Topics for Adult Children
3y ago
One of the joys of aging is the privilege of grandparenting. If one takes seriously the fundamental precept that engaging in healthy activities helps one age well, the opportunity to support children and grandchildren is right up there on the keeping-healthy scale. At first, way back last March, it did not seem like isolation would ..read more