Most of us who are middle aged and have aging parents have never had to learn about how to take care of our parents or how to best help them.
And so I know that women go in and out of the workforce to raise children, to take care of their parents -- so many issues that affect our lives.
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"It can be very hard sometimes to take care of elderly parents, " Goodyear said.
No one ever teaches us how to take care of our parents when they get old.
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They are quitting their jobs to take care of their parents or other aging loved ones.
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But, increasingly, men are also rearranging their careers in order to take care of their parents.
In one recent survey, 66.2% of Chinese high school students said they planned to take care of their parents in old age.
He wrote: If I die one day, my brother, please shoulder the responsibility to take care of our parents.... If I die one day, my wife, please do not grieve.
There are friends to be hugged, kids to be educated, parents to take care of.
Zhang said he mainly returned home to take care of his aging parents, but said he believed it would not be difficult to find jobs in the Chinese interior.
The favored (and more accurate) term is "children's home, " since many of these kids' parents are alive but unable or unwilling to take care of their offspring.
While the Maintenance of Parents Act, and the general social pressure to take care of the elderly within the family, has so far ensured most Singaporean senior citizens, there are signs of change in the social fabric.
The more you take care of yourself, the more energy and love to you will have to give to your aging parents.
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