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What’s the hardest decision you ever made? Even after making what you thought was the hardest decision in your life, have you found another, harder decision has found its way into your life? That’s the case for me. For three years now dad has lived in a rehab facility, been moved across country to live…

Make no mistake about it, caring for a parent in the latter years of his or her life can be a near impossible task. And that’s even if your parent is an easy-going person with whom getting along is super easy. Dad is not super easy-going and… well he is far from easy to get…

Recognizing dad’s diminishing abilities to maneuver well around the house and manipulate things with his hands, I added a network of Google Home mini speakers and a Google Hub to the house and began trying to train him to ask Google for certain things. There is a device in each room and bathroom in the…

So this has begun. Probably should have over a year ago. Dry-erase markers and mirrors are a match made for caring for adult parents… especially in the bathroom! Things are pretty fluid (no pun originally intended, but I’ll work with it!) in the bathroom with aging parents. So a dry-erase marker allows you to make,…

You know how people always told you that as people age they return to childhood behavior? Well, I never doubted it, but I also never realized how far reaching this reality of aging was until I moved my dad in with me. From reading (EVERY) random sign we pass on the road, to not picking…