Aging Parents 
Alzheimer’s Testing: Are We Ready for the Test Anxiety?
Reading about the new guidelines for Alzheimer’s early detection immediately made me think of the anxiety wrapped around (and up in) testing for HIV. Knowledge may equal p... ...read more
Getting Old (And Being a Grown-up About It)
Arthur Riven’s recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, about being both a physician and an Alzheimer’s patient, is perhaps one of the best pieces I’ve read rece... ...read more
Supreme Court Nominees Have Mothers, Too
In graduate school, when I interned at a locked psychiatric unit for teenagers, I had a supervisor who used to tell me this: “The mother’s the mother,” she... ...read more
Mother’s Day: The Most Ambivalence-Generating Holiday of All
In between attending the screening of Rodrigo Garcia’s — “Big Love,” “In Treatment,” “The Sopranos” — compelling new film &... ...read more
Hoarders: You Feel Superior to Them, Right? Wrong.
I have watched the TV show Hoarders once, but in visiting the homes of patients as an LCSW have seen the effects of real-life hoarding played all too often. It’s diffic... ...read moreA Young (Transsexual) Wife Exercises Her Older Husband to Death. And the Lesson Is…?
This bizarre story is true. At face value, it is about a middle-age wife who exercised her elderly husband to death in a swimming pool. But on a gut level we know there is more. ...read more
End-Of-Life Talks That Never Happen: Why?
I read the article in The New York Times, “Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait” (Jan 12, 2010) with interest, but ended up feeling something important ... ...read more
Too Young To Have a Mother That Old?
With all the medical technology that enables older and older women to have children, maybe it’s time to look at it from the adult child’s point of view. ...read more
Welcome to the Birth of “Aging Parents”
Let me say right off that talking about aging parents is not sexy, nor does it make for a sexy dialogue. Aging is complicated. Parents (having them and being one) are complicate... ...read moreFollow Us
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