Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Caregiving, From Both Sides Now - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com

By PAULA SPAN

Susan Katz thought she knew all about caring for old people. Trained as a social worker, she had spent more than 15 years working for home care agencies and for assisted and independent living facilities. So when her own parents began to falter in their mid-80s – her mother had Parkinson’s disease, and her father was debilitated by the aftereffects of prostate cancer treatment – she felt prepared to step in and help.

The reality has proved very different.
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