DEALING WITH AGING PARENTS

Dealing with aging parents is a sad thing in anyone’s life.

 

As we grow up with time, it’s amazing to notice that our parents listen to and even comply with our advices or something that we ask them to do. As long as they live, we think about ourselves to be kids, and we actually start becoming actual adults when they expire.

 

It makes me proud to have the youngest parents around.

My parents married early and when they were just about eighteen, I was born. Growing up in the midst of young parents was a wonderful experience for me and when I became a mother, they were still young.

 

However, many of my friends were not as lucky as me and they have aging parents. I know how difficult it is for them balancing with their own lives while looking after their elderly parents. To me, a rest home can’t be a good option for ailing parents but as we struggle for a better life it becomes pretty hard for us to pay equal attention to our children and spouse and to our parents simultaneously.  What is to be done now? Well, we need a good planning to secure best results in days to come.

 

Since some things are inevitable, we do make plans for our retirement and similarly, we should also plan for our parents. While a few of our parents are financially comfortable and can take care of themselves, there are some who need both financial and physical supports from their wards. Our parents have taken good care of us and now, it’s our responsibility that we should also look after them till the last day of their lives.

 

One of my dear friends has been looking after her very ill father together with her three other sisters, and once she told, “If one parent can look after four kids, why can’t four kids together look after their one parent only?”

 

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