Adult Children, Aging Parents: When Caregiving Roles are Reversed

Adult Children, Aging Parents: When Caregiving Roles are Reversed

Plan a time after breakfast or before dinner when the entire family gathers to pray for one another. Choose whether to be caught in the middle or active within the center. Thinking of yourself as asandwiched caregiver reinforces a trapped image. In reality, the primary caregiver is like an air traffic controller, the center of all activities, directing services that sustain the care receiver. Caregiving in the Community of Believers Caregiving is an intense experience. Caregiver and care receiver have to be free to express their deepest concerns to a willing listenerpastor, counselor, friend, or relative. Communication within the caregiving family and with an encouraging church spreads an understanding of how adult children and aging parents find fulfillment and spiritual growth in their final years together.

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Georgette Smith won court approval to remove life support. Shirley Egan was at her daughters side. Reports say that with dying breaths, the daughter and mother shared forgiveness. Mrs. Egan was acquitted on August 18, 1999, of attempting to kill her daughter. Her lawyer said that Mrs. Egan was involuntarily intoxicated from prescription drugs and didnt intend to shoot her daughter.

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