“This won’t go on for very long,” Sharon Hall said to herself when she invited her elderly mother, who’d suffered several small strokes, to live with her.
That was five years ago, just before Hall turned 65 and found herself crossing into older age.
A Late-Life Surprise: Taking Care Of Frail, Aging Parents
As parents live to later decades, their elderly children find themselves with unexpected duties
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When we think of an adult caring for an elderly parent, a woman in her late 40s or early 50s comes to mind. But now, people in their 60s and 70s are caring for a parent in their 90s or older. Philippe Leone/ Unsplash
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