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Adult Children and Aging Parents

Adult children face many issues when dealing with aging parents as the parent-child relationship often reverses. Learn how to maintain a healthy, respectful relationship as your parent ages and becomes more dependent on you.

Articles About Adult Children Aging Parents
  • Growing Connections: Gardening with Seniors
    Gardening is one of the most popular activities among the aging, and for good reason: It's an aerobic, stimulating and restorative form of exercise--and rewards us with fresh flowers and juicy tomatoes. Gardening also can be enjoyed by seniors with dementia as well as those who need walkers and wheelchairs. But the heat, bugs and heavy lifting can be challenging. Here are some tips for caregivers who want to garden with elderly parents.
  • Is It Right to Convince Mom and Dad to Move Close to the Kids?
    What happens when Mom and Dad live far away from their children, and then one of the elderly parents gets ill or one dies and the other is left alone? Should they move closer to family?
  • Caring for Parents Who Didn't Care for You
    How to give emotional and physical care to your elderly parents, even when they didn't care for you as a child.
  • An Addition to Your Caregiving Team: Your Parent's Grandchildren
    Your children, at whatever age, may be the most important addition to your caregiving team. Here is how caregivers can bring in their children to help care for an elderly parent.
 

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