If you’ve ever been involved in creating final arrangements for another person—making decisions about transporting and burying or disposing of the body, choosing a container or casket, planning a service or ceremony—you know there can be a lot of calls and judgments to make at a difficult time. You might also have had the cringe-making […]
Tunnel vision is common among caregivers. We often think we have to carry the whole job alone even when we’re feeling tired and overwhelmed. We don’t consider the risks of not caring for ourselves. We can do it. We’ll make it through. Hello! Caregivers often suffer from serious illnesses and stress that turns to depression. […]
Who are the happiest people you know? If you think about it very long, you might conclude that an older person in your life is perhaps the happiest. Research has shown that the happiest people are generally older people and those in their 70s are the happiest of all. So What Makes Older People Happy? […]
Society devotes substantial resources to helping working mothers find a work-life balance as they transition between their family obligations and the workforce. But what about the staggering 37 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States, a majority of whom are women? When they transition into family caregiving — often whilst balancing work, children and […]
February 19, 2017 was the 75th anniversary of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order that put 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. Most of them were citizens of our country. As the children of aging parents who have seen so much political unrest during their lifetime, we often don’t agree with their politics or their […]
Well before Marie Kondo proselytized about the necessity of storing tee shirts in precise little rolls in her top-selling manifesto, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, a bounty of books had been published about the virtues of pruning possessions and neatening homes, complete with suggested systems for how […]