Greetings! It's been a few days since I last blogged. We have been working hard at spiffing up www.giftsfromadistance.com while growing www.girlsofallages and our Amazon offerings. You know it is coming into the season of giving, right? We have a Halloween coupon this month. Type in "boo" at checkout and your entire order will be reduced by 10% but...enough about business and on to my subject for the day, When children become parents to their parents. It is predicted that children born now will live to be 100. Whew! That is great as long as their quality of life is good and they are not rocking or rotting away in a nursing home with no one to visit them or not knowing their loved ones when they come to visit. We are going through the role reversal right now with my husband's mom and step dad. They own their own home but are really unable to care for themselves completely anymore. They don't drive - although my mother-in-law does try to walk about 3 miles a day with her walker - and she does when she is feeling well but, they don't eat well - well, at least they didn't. They want to stay in their home so, we have hired a caregiving service which allows them to be more independent while having help. The folks that help out do the grocery shopping - take Jack to Nifty After 50 so he can get some excercise, clean and cook for them plus more. There is a really good article regarding keeping your aging parents at home that was in US News and World Report back in November, 2007. I am including the link here: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/11/02/15-things-you-can-do-to-keep-mom-and-dad-at-home.html. You don't realize how much there is to do and I found this article helpful. I hope you do too!
On to get ready to go out - Hal and I are going to charity fundraising event for Working Wardrobes (www.workingwardrobes.org) called Blue Jeans and the Blues. Should be fun. I will let you know all about it later.
Hugs,
Terry
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