Last week I did something that's quickly becoming one of my favorite parts of this work: I stood in front of a room full of strangers who, twenty minutes in, didn't feel like strangers anymore. It was a book signing for When Roles Reverse, hosted at a retirement home. But here's the twist the people in the room weren't the residents. They were the adult children. Sons and daughters navigating the sandwich generation life stage: caring for aging parents while still raising kid

By Barbara Stratte | Middle Age Management Podcast Let me just say it out loud, because I think a lot of us are thinking it but nobody wants to say it first. When you're watching your parent disappear a little more every day, repeating the same questions, asking to go home when they're already home, looking at you with eyes that used to know you, the fear creeps in. Is this going to be me? If that thought has ever crossed your mind, hi friend. I see you. I am you. My mom has

If you've typed "when should my parent stop living alone" into a search bar lately,maybe at midnight, maybe while your kids were at school, maybe in a quiet moment of panic, we see you. And we need to tell you something important: the fact that you're Googling it might already be your answer. We're not saying this to scare you. We're saying it because we've lived it. Bryan watched his dad decline into full-time memory care. Barbara's mom lives with them right now, in their ho