Honor Your (Elderly) Parents: How Adult Children ‘Make Some Return’

Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares for her elderly mom (like me). There are a lot of us! This friend described how she and her husband took her mother, a widow in declining health, into their home; they had thought the time would be short, but the years of care are stretching long. “We had all sorts of plans laid for our retirement years — travel and ministry and so forth,” said my friend, rather ruefully. “We