More on caring for parents

The Wall Street Journal has a blog called, The Juggle, that “covers choices and tradeoffs that people make as they juggle work and family”, certainly pertinent to the issues many of us face.

Author Sara Schaefer Munoz points to a Forbes article called, “CEO Caregivers“, which shows that anyone can be inducted into the Sandwich Generation. However, as Munoz points out, not everyone can afford the solution taken by the man in the article, which was to outsource his parents’ care to SeniorBridge, a care management provider.

I am a big advocate for getting help with care, but, what bugs me about the Forbes article is the tone (possibly unintentional) that implies that executives like the gentleman who is the subject of the article, are heroic in some way because they are “important”, yet, are taking time to manage their aging parents’ care.

No one is more deserving of praise than anyone else, it’s just something you do when the situation calls for it, doesn’t matter if you have a corner office or not.

ht: Hsein at Play Library for the article