The Family Caregiver Wolves Are Circling Our House

AI Image. Prompt by Orrin Onken

When I was in gerontology school, they taught that when a family needs someone to do elder care, the oldest daughter gets the job. This is true around the planet. It is a human thing, not a cultural one. Of course, in some families, there is no daughter, or the oldest is unavailable because she is in prison, living in Peru, or working undercover for the CIA. In those cases, someone else steps in. But…