Starting a Seniors In Transition Blog: Helping My own Parents

Six months ago I mentioned here (see “Back in-love.."above..)    I was interested in social networking and starting to blog, but about what can I write? Last week I got it! Me helping my own parents!

Long distance care-giving for my mother, Edna, and mother-in-law, Marie, had been easy and stable. Marie was  in assisted living in upstate NY for 5 years. My mother, Edna, lives in assisted living in Florida. I have siblings (one is my husband’s) living near each of them. (By the way, if you have a sibling living near a dependent parent and you don’t live near too, right now, either email or call them to say “thanks”.) Earlier this summer everything changed. 

Helping someone else’s parent is what I do for a living (more than 10 years). Everything is different when the parent is mine. I’ve always been able to empathize with adult children, but after this summer, I’ll be even better. I hope you’ll learn from my experiences