Sentences with phrase «of elderly parents when»

As a parent I have taken care of infants and have been fortunate to take care of elderly parents when they were bedridden.

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The answer is not, as such histrionics imply, to do less for the elderly, most of whom depend on Social Security and Medicare (Dean also makes the point that you don't do the young a favor when you fail to adequately support their aging parents).

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

And today, when she should be retired and sitting down with a cup of tea, she still has so much to do, including looking after her elderly parents and grandchildren.

Consider the young mother who gives up night after night of sleep to soothe her little one's cries, or the middle aged man who still gets up before dawn each day to provide for his family, or the elderly parents who give up the peace of their golden years to welcome the child of their youth back into their home when life hits hard.

This is particularly important when dealing with elderly parents, who may feel vulnerable because of their age.

When it comes to taking care of elderly parents, usually one sibling takes on the task.

For example, adult siblings may be feuding over what to do with an elderly parent's house when the deeper issue may be the fear of losing their parent.

What I have never considered, until now, is the importance of these rituals when our parents are elderly and our family connections are tested.