Well, many of us have met a challenge to that declaration of long ago. We have found ourselves helping parents cope with the difficulties of aging by securing elder care in their homes, offering family care in ours, or by searching for assisted living facilities that meet their specific needs. Now, even with greater resources, we boomers are still trying to figure out how to facilitate the care of our parents. On this site you will encounter the dilemmas of adult children carin g for elderly seniors. In today's world many people are healthy into their eighties, even their nineties, though there are still those who need assistance much younger.
Health is the determining factor.
Yet, as our loved ones age, their personal power is diminished by a younger generation and they no longer feel that their knowledge is valued. They lose control of their own lives . Our intervention can be welcomed or resented, but the cold reality is that we will someday all be elderly. So, as we have spoken out before as a generation when it behooved us , let's break the silence of past generations. Aging is something we can all talk about.