The Guardian had a great story last week, “When Your Parents Live Forever“. Between them, Dan and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok have cared for three parents in their nineties.
It’s a very realistic, and, down to earth account of caring for parents who have lived to extreme old age:
Yet, for all our blessings, we have one deep, dark preoccupation. We never expected it, and we certainly never prepared for it. What has become perhaps the most difficult and disturbing experience of our late middle-age has nothing to do with our earlier concerns. We are, for the first time, confronted with the problem of …read more