Caregiving: Parenting Your Parents

It was during the years that Mom was the primary caregiver for her ailing husband that some signs of trouble began to appear. Mom and her husband shared in paying the household bills, and each did so from his or her own checking accounts. I noticed that Mom began rounding up the payment amounts when she entered them in her check register. As a result, she never knew exactly how much money she had in her account. She also...Read entire article »

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