Caring Is Sharing (Category: Health Care)
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June 4, 2008 |
2:36 PM
Check out Newsweek.com’s "A Guide for Caregivers." Author Joan Raymond offers tips on medical, financial, legal, and housing issues you can discuss with your aging relatives and points to additional helpful resources. Before you join the ranks of the approximately 20 million Americans taking care of their families and their aging parents – what we at AARP call the sandwich generation – it’s important to open a dialogue about these issues with your parents. You can also visit AARP's caregiving page or pick up our book, Caring for Your Parents, at Borders for more information.
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Carol O'Dell says:
I can't tell you how glad I am to see caregiving issues in the forefront of the media. Each time a story is shared about an elderly parent, about a mother with Alzheimer's, we learn a little more how to be human, be a part of the human family.
We have so much work to do--research, funding, community resources, and education is paramount.
The more we know about caregiving, the more we enter it with out eyes and our arms open, the more we make plans, the better and rich everyone's lives will be.
~Carol D. O'Dell
Author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
available on Amazon
www.mothering-mother.com
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