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How to Care for Your Elderly Parents
Our parents take care of us, but as they get older, they will need assistance with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, meal preparation, and medication management. However, some people often don’t have time to support their elderly parents and use retirement facilities to ensure the best possible care. Sometimes this is a request by parents who don’t want to burden their children, so they will ask to live in a retirement community. But some children want to take care of their elderly and give back to their parents for taking care of them for most of their lives. So if you’re thinking about caring for your elderly…
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Life Changes In A Split Second
I debated a long time with this post. First, just whether to even write it or not. But, in the almost 8 years I’ve been writing Peanut Butter and Whine, it’s been an ever-changing blog. I’ve always written what was on my mind (ha, or what’s left of it anyway!) and what’s happening in my life. So, today you get the Cliff Notes version. I explain more, add my thoughts and my new understanding of well……. basically how bad it sucks to get old. On Friday December 22 at 6:00 pm I went to my Mom’s granny flat at the back of our house to check on her as is…
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The Mamas and the Papas: Will Your Parents Become a Burden or a Boon?
The Mamas and the Papas: Will Your Parents Become a Burden or a Boon? No one relishes the thought of watching their parents age, or those final days of their lives in which tough emotional, mental, and financial decisions have to be made. But there is a huge misunderstanding when it comes to the financial wherewithal of moms and dads all across the US: most Millennial and Gen X children are fearful their parents don’t have enough to retire on, enough to live on if they need to be placed in assisted care, or even enough to pay for their funeral or hospice care if needed. The (albeit morbid) good…
