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Liz runs the website Working Daughter. This post was originally featured there. The other day I was talking to a woman who is trying to run a business while caring for her ailing mother. “It sounds like you’ve had some experience with sick, elderly parents,” she said. Indeed. I told her about the summer when both …

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Debra Savage RN, BSN is the clinical support manager for Assisted Living and Home and Community Based Services for Presbyterian Senior Living. This post was originally featured on their website. More and more Americans step up to assume the role of primary caregiver for an adult family member or loved one every year. In the …

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Roxanne Jones blogs at BoomerHaiku. This post was originally featured there.  As crazy-making as it can be to care for aging parents sometimes, there also can be moments of snort-stuff-out-your-nose hilarity. Sometimes we only see the humor in retrospect – since we’re so aggravated or mortified at the time it’s happening. Here’s a case in …

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