Starting the conversation early, staying calm, and respecting their needs can help you navigate your elderly parent’s seemingly irrational behavior and their refusal of the help they require. Right ...

If you find yourself dealing with negative elderly parents, there are steps you can take to find the cause and try to resolve ...

It’s challenging to watch your parents get older — to see the father who taught you to play sports now struggle with stairs or to worry that the mother who once drove you to school should no longer be ...

When Sandi Mitchell’s partner died in fall 2023 after a difficult illness, she was devastated by the loss, though it was far from her only taste of grief. Her first husband had died in 1999 after a ...

“You’re not a bad daughter,” I told my patient, a grown woman with children of her own. Her body shook as she sobbed. Her 87-year-old mother was in failing health, living in an upscale assisted-living ...

Current events, national and local, have me wondering about a trait seen in the elderly. Faced with a situation that clearly requires a change, or at least honest reevaluation, they just dig in their ...