I Care For My Elderly Parents

The holidays can cause a problem of overstimulation. Especially persons with dementia need help to be able to respond positively to the flood of activities; otherwise under or over stimulation can cause them to withdraw, decreasing...

During the past month our family has experienced some drastic changes. My mother had a stroke and a seizure in March and when she got out of the hospital, it was agreed by her and by my husband and myself that she should no longer live...

Hi please could any one help me.I am looking after my mum,and she is bad on her feet,and getting worse.she wears pads,how do you hold up someone and put a pad on pulse pull up pants, l am by myself we have no help. Thanks

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, the tighter the weave, the stronger the fabric. I believe we have lost stength in our weave...

My husband and I just got married this year and we are caring for his mom. It is a hard way to start a marriage and I knew what I was getting into. I just didn't realize how alienated I would feel in his home. I work and he stays home...

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she will be going straight into a home!!

My grandmother wants to be independent but has in turn gotten scammed through things in the mail including car warranties, life insurance, etc. typical junk mail, and has missed bill payments, and tried to do her taxes herself. She has...

I'm my dads oldest child, when I was younger I never got along with him, I would purposely try to hurt him and tell him I hate him and I hope he dies. I moved into an apartment last year with my boyfriend and my relationship with my...

I'm not exactly doing what the title of this group says, but my situation is a similar one. My dad lost his job back in January. He now only gets unemployment. We used to live in the same apartment complex, but different apartments...

My husband's father had been living alone for 6 years after his wife died tragically in a car accident. He's now 71 years old and recently had a stroke. This old man hadn't been taking care of himself at all before the health problems...

I understand how hard it must be to care for elderly parents although I never got the chance to find out as my dad passed away while still at the hospital. I remember at the time I would have given everything I had just to have him come...

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) but I am still looking after my mother who is 89. In many ways she is in good health and...

My mother had a stroke at xmas time when she had her stroke she was visiting me at my place which saved her from dieing no doudt.The problem is when she came home she decided to move in with me and me wanting to help her I thought it...

my mom is soon to be 87. she is in bad health. I take care of her the best I can. I feel like I don't do enough. im tired,scared , lonely and worried. I never get the house, not even out in the yard. I have no friends. but , to keep her...

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 (mom and dad never did own a house rented various places raising six kids).. So now years later...

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 different, and, we could not have looked more alike.

I think she plays with me. I think she...

My husband and I bought a very large home 12 years ago because we believed that our parents would some day come to live with us. based on our siblings challenges we were correct. My mother in law moved in 3 years ago and my father...

This is a second part to a previous posting.

We drove to PA at the end of last week to give my sister a two day break from mother supervision duties. Mom wasn't as good as I had hoped but not as bad as I was afraid. I went with her...

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 ago she slipped and fell at home. Luckily I was at home. But since that day she has been...