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4 months ago

Let them Live

Royce Shook · I lost my parents when I was in my 30s and now I see friends who have parents who are super seniors. They have parents who are in their late 80s and early 90s. My friends worry about when their parents get old. · Here is some advice from someone who could not see his parents grow ...

9 months ago

Let them live

Royce Shook · I lost my parents when I was in my 30s and now I see friends who have parents who are super seniors. They have parents who are in their late 80s and early 90s. My friends worry about when their parents get old. · Here is some advice from someone who could not see his parents grow ...

1 year ago

Giving Thanks for Being a Caregiver

Royce Shook · Much of the adjustment that goes into being a caregiver for your aging parent goes into dealing with the stress and the emotional drain that role can bring. In addition to the issues of how to care for her in the best possible way, there are the emotions of anger when programs do ...

1 year ago

That Thing We Don’t Talk About

Royce Shook · Have you ever heard the phrase, “The 200-pound gorilla in the room”? It’s a phrase that refers to a topic that nobody talks about, but it so dominates everybody’s thoughts. Everyone knows the gorilla is there, but nobody gets anxious because, after all, you don’t want to upset th ...

1 year ago

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Royce Shook · There is a family phenomenon that you may face now as you should be heading into a leisurely life of a senior citizen and retirement. · But if you find that you are being called upon to raise your own grandchildren, that is a senior citizen lifestyle that is very different than w ...

1 year ago

That Thing We Don’t Talk About

Royce Shook · My wife and I were talking about end-of-life planning with my son and his partner and I realized that my son was very uncomfortable with the topic. I thought about the phrase, “The 200-pound gorilla in the room”? It’s a phrase that refers to a topic that nobody talks about, but i ...

3 years ago

The Mexican Standoff

Jim Murray · There is a repeating pattern that I have noticed all throughout my life. It is the pattern of forces in opposition. · When you are young, it starts with the whole notion of right and wrong, mostly enforced by your parents in their efforts to help you grow up understanding the dif ...

5 years ago

Do you talk about?

Royce Shook · I was out with a friend and they said, so now we have talked about our obligatory review of our health maybe we can talk about other things, so we did. Later I was out with some other friends and we were out talking about how people react when they are given bad medical news. I h ...

5 years ago

Helping your parents to move out of the family home

Royce Shook · There are some big events within the lifetime of a senior citizen, and few will compare in terms of the tremendous act of moving your parent moves out of their home into an Assisted Living or Residential Care facility.  It’s a surprisingly emotional call.  If your mama and pop ar ...

5 years ago

Reading to your grandchildren or children Part 1

Royce Shook · On a rainy afternoon, as I was thinking about the importance of reading for all ages, I thought I would compile a list of top children’s books from various sources. On a raining day rather than sit and watch a screen, I think, a better use of time, would be to sit and read with y ...

5 years ago

Listening to Your Parents even Now

Royce Shook · Have you ever had that aggravation that you go over to your aging parent's apartment or house to help with the housework and get some serious “caregiving” done and the senior himself seems to be bent on stopping your progress? You no doubt came over with a list as long as your ar ...

5 years ago

Caregivers and the Work Place

Royce Shook · More and more businesses are facing a challenge and some decisions to be made. As the baby boom generation moves into retirement years and becomes elderly, the workers that make your business function so efficiently are going to have the additional demands placed on them of becom ...

5 years ago

Things Grandparents Know

Royce Shook · My generation seems obsessed with perpetual youth. But we are also people of passion. From the moment my generation arrived, we seemed to be bringing a mission and a different vision for society than had existed before. This sense of knowledge and of vision accounts for the incre ...

6 years ago

Senior Bill of Rights

Royce Shook · Sometimes when you and your parent are partnering for their care, it seems like an “us against the world” situation. But since the person you are caring for has a little fight left in them, it seems it’s up to you to make sure that your mom or dad get all they have coming. Just b ...

6 years ago

Seniors and Self-Esteem

Royce Shook · Few of us think about our own self-esteem. · But how we feel about ourselves, our work, our relationship to family and the community and our place in the world is the cornerstone not only of our ability to function and be productive in life but of our mental and physical health a ...

6 years ago

Making a Difference Together

Royce Shook · There is something very self-absorbed about the caregiver to senior citizen relationship. · By that, we mean that most if not all of the decisions you make and subjects of concern focus either on the senior citizen and her needs or on the caregiver and the senior citizen and how ...

6 years ago

Guilt Helps Nobody

Royce Shook · If the job of being a caregiver only involved giving help to your ageing parent such as doing the dishes and helping fill out the Medicare paperwork, your life would be considerably easier. And if that were the case, even if there was a lot to do, the problem of caregiver burn ou ...

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