Aging Parents experts Frances and Robert Muskowitz answer some of your toughest care giving questions.

For example, what happens when you experience a heart attack or illness while trying to fulfill your responsibilities to your parents and children?

How do you take charge when your 95 year old mother-in-law refuses your help?

I think one of our biggest problems we have as caregivers is worry. We also sometimes feel isolated as we watch others who are in the “fun” times of their lives, and we sometimes think we’re the only ones going through basic caregiving problems.  That isn’t true, but that’s what we think when we’re down.  Actually, we’re all in this together and we can give comfort to each other as we travel through this maze of taking care of  our aging parents.

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