I Care For My Elderly Parents


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I Care For My Mother Who Is 89

As I am single and the most financial and available it sort of fell on me to look after my parents. My dad has been dead 4 years (alzheimers...

A Son Looking After My Elderly Mum

I am a only child and my mother lives with me. At the age of 49 I have had a good life and a successful career. She is now 77. A few months...

I Feel Guilty

hi i have given up my life to look after my mum and i resent it every day I am the only girl and it fell on me i give up every thing to do...

My....little Mother

She's very old and quite goofy now, and, we were never really close, we were truly two different types of women, we could NOT have been more...

A Few Things to Ponder Re: This Topic

I believe that my/our generation has lost a very important element of social fabric. I say fabric as there is a weave involved in fabric...

Because I Miss Her So Much..

I did. I cared. I did the best I could.My mother wasn't that old really. She was I'm her late 40's when her health started to detiriorate...

My Mom Lives With Me

i bought a double house many years ago and my mother wanted so much to own her own home that I said sure move in here to the lower apartment...
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  • "Now the mother was doulbe parapalegic confined to a wheel chair and a dibatic sadly she passed december 06..."
  • "Prior to this, I have always enjoyed bragging rights about my mother and her health and mental clarity..."
  • "I am torn between feeling dispair for myself, and sympathy for my mother, who is now unable to raise her arm to comb her own hair, and cannot grasp a fork and knife in her arthritic hands..."
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40% of people who have this experience are in their forties, 22% are in their fifties, and 20% are in their thirties. 100% of people who have this experience are women.

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