| Elder Care Provokes Simmering Sibling Rivalries |
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|  “We’re all grown up now and dealing with grown-up problems like elder care, right? Well, partially. The extent to which adult siblings actually deal with and resolve parent care problems is almost certainly correlated with their ability to resolve or ignore sibling rivalry issues. So, while the problems are definitely adult-sized, the ego interaction is likely to be all about one’s inner child. The child who feels unloved for themselves and unrecognized for their life accomplishments.
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| Call to Action: Women Unite for Elder Care Help |
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| “Elder care is neither a woman’s issue nor a man’s issue. It’s a human issue. It affects everyone in the family, in the community, in the country. It’s burning through resources at an alarming pace, more than $309 billion per year by some estimates. Various and sundry groups address elder care from a variety of perspectives: tax credits, Medicare payments, leaves of absence, medical education, respite help, inter-family cash transfers, transport vouchers. There’s an idea floated a minute and the competition for funding is intense.
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| Back to the Future: Multi-Generational Households Boom |
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That traditional holiday trip to Grandma’s house just changed from “over the river and through the woods”, to “up the stairs and down the hall”. According to a 2010 Pew Research Report “The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household”, the number of three generation-households in the U.S. exploded in the last decade, growing by 30% to 6.6 million households.
This is a boon for all family members: older adults who now have a vital role to play in the family circle; middle-aged parents who can count on in-house back-up to relieve work and time pressures; and children who have another loving relative on-site to help with homework, transportation and socialization.
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| Bring Elder Care Out of the Closet! |
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| What’s a bigger secret than gays in the military? Try caregivers in the workplace. People providing elder care hide that fact for fear of repercussions at work. They’re wise to do so according to a Society of Human Resource Management study that shows admitting to being a caregiver can derail your career.
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| The Best Kept Elder Care Secret: Geriatric Care Managers |
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| In researching my book The Daughter Trap, I interviewed more than 200 caregiving daughters. To a person, they spoke wistfully about the fact that caregiving dramatically changed their relationship with a parent, from that of adult child to that of hands-on caregiver. In particular, they disliked the “policing” aspects of caregiving, when they found themselves nagging Mom or Dad about taking meds, or personal hygiene, or good nutrition.
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