When Your Parent Refuses Help: Understanding the Real Reasons Behind Resistance to Elderly Care
When a parent resists elderly care, it's rarely about stubbornness. Learn the real emotional reasons behind refusal — and how to respond with empathy.
How Can I Balance Caregiving with Work and Family Responsibilities?
For the past 6 months you’ve been caring for your elderly mother while also working full time and raising two school-aged kids. As a member of the Sandwich Generation, trying to balance caregiving with a job and household can be overwhelming. However, it is possible when you take this approach.
5 Tips to Avoid Caregiver Burnout
Your aging in place elderly mother is chronically ill, so you’ve been serving as her sole caregiver for several months now. But between getting mom to her doctor’s appointments and treatments, and helping her around the house, you hardly have time to take care of yourself. You’re having trouble sleeping, constantly feel stressed-out, and can’t remember the last time you went to the gym. Are you starting to get caregiver burnout?
