{"id":11277,"date":"2018-08-23T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11277"},"modified":"2018-08-23T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:50:23","slug":"a-late-life-surprise-taking-care-of-frail-aging-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11277","title":{"rendered":"A Late-Life Surprise: Taking Care Of Frail, Aging Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis won\u2019t go on for very long,\u201d Sharon Hall said to herself when she invited her elderly mother, who\u2019d suffered several small strokes, to live with her.<\/p>\n

That was five years ago, just before Hall turned 65 and found herself crossing into older age.<\/p>\n

In the intervening years, Hall\u2019s husband was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and forced to retire. Neither he nor Hall\u2019s mother, whose memory had deteriorated, could be left alone in the house. Hall had her hands full taking care of both of them, seven days a week. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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