Doing the Best You Can To Care for Aging Parents

Caregivers often choose between options A or B when neither feels like a good choice. As a result, stress levels rise.

Learn what doing the best you can means. Gain knowledge about common caregiving decisions so that years down the road, you are not filled with regret about all of the things you wanted to do but could not because of caregiving duties.

Limited Time and Resources

As a caregiver, how much time do you spend each week caring for grandpa, grandma, a mother or father, siblings, a spouse, your children, or someone else? If you log the time, is it more or less than what you estimated?

You might dream of sending someone a bill for the time you spend in weekly caregiving activities. Unless you have a formal notarized caregiving agreement with a family member or the state where you live has a Medicaid program that pays family caregivers, this is an unlikely scenario.

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