5 Caregiving Lessons I Learned From My Mother
I am back from a 4 month leave-of-absence for caregiving. I left when my 94 year old mother fell in January and broke her hip. I thought she would, as usual, …
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Housing Changes During Life Transitions
Some life transitions, like a stroke, come upon us with no warning. Others, like a divorce, may be years in the planning. Either way, often life transitions …
Autism, Behind the Scenes: The Unacknowledged Parties
Have I ever told you how much I love April? A whole 30 days dedicated to the Autism Spectrum Disorder does not get any better than that! While each year …
Parenting a Chronically Ill Child & Maintaining Your Relationship
You will always remember the moments before you learned – squeezing your partner’s hand, fervently praying, scared beyond words, waiting for the …
Ability Over Disability
Recently there has been a growing amount of interest in issues related to age-related disabilities. My work with Jewish Sacred Aging has begun to look at some …
College Planning As A Family Partnership
The parents of college-bound students are frequently frustrated and confused by the complicated college planning and entrance process. They are quite …
Special Needs Children Benefit from Nature, Animals, and the Arts
In this day and age, there are very few of us who don’t have personal knowledge of children with special needs. You may be a parent, a sibling, other …
Our Aging Loved Ones Deserve to be Healthy Too
American society has a significant prejudice against the elderly. Our Puritan roots bring with them some powerful stories that we re-tell every generation; …
Parents of Children with Autism, It’s OK to Cry
Sometimes life is as bad as you think it is. No matter how many articles point out the bright side, the challenge, the “unique opportunity”, of having a …
Why Is There a Stigma About Using Hearing Aides?
What is it about hearing aides that says: “I’m handicapped” or “I’m old” or “Shout at me”? My mother was completely deaf in her 40’s from …