by Jacqueline Marcell | Family
When I had to suddenly give up my life to go take care of my elderly parents, both with health problems and starting to develop dementia, I was so surprised to read that caregivers are often more depressed than those they care for, and that those with a chronic...
by Jacqueline Marcell | Family
For eleven years I begged my obstinate elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving her, he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to help him sighed in exasperation, Jacqueline,...
by Jacqueline Marcell | Health and Fitness
When I had to give up my 15-year career as a television executive to go take care of my elderly parents, I didn’t know that caregivers have a 63% higher death rate than other people their own age. A year later, without a day off, as I struggled to solve the...