If you could change one thing about caregiving, what would it be?
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If you could change one thing about caregiving, what would it be?
‘Take Me Home’ offers a view of how one family faces caregiving issues and finds solutions
There’s a beautiful scene in the new movie “Take Me Home,” where the long-suffering mom goes to great pains to get her young adult daughter who has a cognitive disability to take a bath. She then shuffles through the house afterward with her walker, and you can feel how much the struggle is costing her.
The dad’s memory is slipping and he needs help keeping track of the date as he pays bills, and he calls out to his daughter for help, but she has just as much trouble keeping up. It’s a vicious circle that many families get stuck in, as caregiver parents age and their adult children with special needs have to step in to try to keep households running as best they can.
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Beth Pinsker is a financial-planning columnist at MarketWatch. She has been a certified financial planner (CFP®) since 2018. Previously, she worked at Reuters, Fidelity and Walletpop.com. She is the author of the book "My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving." Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for Entertainment Weekly, the Dallas Morning News and many other publications. You can follow her on BlueSky (@bethpinsker.bsky.social) or LinkedIn (@bpinsker).
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