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Posted: April 29, 2004
Caregiving and the Only Child
You're Not Alone When You Muster Your Own "Team Approach" to Caregiving
If three out of every four family caregivers polled recently said they felt most anxious in their role when confronted with a lack of consistent help from other family members, how must an only child caring for an elderly mother or father feel? Where do they turn? What unique obstacles do they face when caring for an elderly parent?
Despite the finding in a nationwide survey by the National Family Caregiver?s Association, there is no comparable lonely or anxious feeling in caregiving as having no siblings to help, no matter how little or much, in caring for an aging parent.
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