Yesterday, the New Old Age blog from The New York Times featured a story about the impact of divorce on family caregivers. In the post, we meet family caregivers who juggle caregiving responsibilities for divorced parents living in different locations, plus stepparents.
And, that reminded me of a series we featured several years ago on caring for a step. (It’s interesting to note that these articles contain information that’s current today. Sometimes, it seems little has changed in caregiving over the past 15 years or so. But, that’s for another post.) I had been meaning to re-post the series; yesterday’s article gave me the nudge I needed. You can find the series in our Read section or by clicking our links below.
I also meant to post the stories last night as I watched, ironically, ”Jon and Kate Plus Eight,” but the show had me too engrossed to work. I saw a few moments of last week’s shows, which aired before last night’s new episode. The new episode was then followed by an episode from last year.
Oh, my! How two can change. I couldn’t get over the difference in how each looked from one year to the next. They looked so young last year; this year, Jon looks haggard (too much smoking) and Kate looks old (just too much?). It takes its toll.
I hope I’m around in 50 years to see how the eight Gosselin children juggle the caregiving needs of their parents and, very probably, stepparents. It’s just the way of our new old families.
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