Aging parents Quote by Peggi Speers

“I love you but I got to love me more.”

— Peggi Speers

“Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge…

— Peggi Speers

“My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is…

— John Passaro

“There is nothing as appealing as a mouth full of gratitude, and a heart full of compassion.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“From CARE FOR THE CARER, AN ALZHEIMER'S MEMOIR 'Is there a cure?' Jane asked repeatedly. This simple sentence had several possible meanings. Jeff, I'm…

— Jeff Camhi

“I wanted to keep her from slipping out of my life. I wanted to squeeze the Alzheimer's right out of her. I wanted us…

— Jeff Camhi

“The phrase 'Love one another' is so wise. By loving one another, we invest in each other and in ourselves. Perhaps someday, when we…

— Peggi Speers

“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in…

— John Cage

“When someone you love has dementia, you too experience a form of anticipatory grief, but yours may extend over a longer period of time…

— Wolfelt PhD CT

Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

— Billy Graham

“They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should…

— Kh

Beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four,…

— Dave Barry

“That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever”

— Christopher Bollen

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a…

— Bill Moyers