Aging parents should not suffer in isolation

Aging parents should not suffer in isolation

Every week in Kentucky, I meet parents in their late seventies and eighties who are still providing daily care for their adult children with disabilities. Many of those adult children are in their fifties. Their bodies are failing. Lifting is unsafe. Bathing is dangerous. Transfers put everyone at risk. Yet they keep going, not because they can, but because they believe there is no other choice. That belief is quietly harming families across our…