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Looking After Your Parents - Sympatico / MSN Finance: "Looking After Your Parents
Posted 7/7/2006
By Gordon Powers
According to a recent Statistics Canada report on home health care, nearly 3 million Canadians provide home care for a family member or friend with a long-term health concern. Perhaps, like an increasing number of Canadians, you�re even one of them. If not, what will you do when your aging parent can no longer live alone?
If you�re thinking of bringing mom to live with you, be sure that�s really what she needs. While geographic proximity is good for widowed parents, living in the same household with their children can be a detriment to their social integration, a recent University of Michigan study suggests. Living with an adult child significantly decreases the amount of interaction a bereaved older adult has with friends, neighbours and relatives.
One factor could be that older adults living with their children have more household responsibilities, such as caring for grandchildren, and may not have much free time to interact with people outside the immediate family.
What about your own lifestyle? Baby boomers have characteristics that are, in some cases, markedly different from their parents. These include a redefined family structure and parenting, women who have invested much more time in education and careers; dual incomes and increased financial resources; redefined sexual behavior and partnering, and a greater emphasis on health and fitness. So, how is all that going to fit in with your father�s World War II approach to life? And then there are the practical considerations."
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