# aging parent (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover aging parent. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Have People Around You. You Are Still Doing This Completely Alone.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/no-one-understands-aging-parent-working-professional) _2026-08-18 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What to do when no one around you understands what managing an aging parent while working full time actually requires. ## [You Haven't Told Your Boss Yet. You're Not Sure You Ever Will.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-boss-conversation-career-risk) _2026-08-11 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ How do I tell my boss about my aging parent without hurting my career, and what actually happens if I say it out loud. ## [You Did Everything On The List Today. It Still Doesn't Feel Like Enough](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-guilt-not-doing-enough-working-professional) _2026-08-04 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What to do when the guilt of aging parent care follows a working professional into a job that already asks for everything she has. ## [You Don't Recognize The Person You've Become At Work. And You're Starting To Wonder If She's Gone For Good.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-identity-work-impact) _2026-07-28 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What it means when managing an aging parent quietly changes who you are at work, and no one there would think to ask. ## [Nothing About Your Work Has Changed. You Have. And No One There Knows Why.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parents-affecting-work-performance) _2026-07-21 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What it means when aging parents start affecting your work performance during your peak career years. ## [You Are Not Burned Out. You Are Resentful. And There Is a Difference.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-resentment-working-professional) _2026-07-14 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What happens when the exhaustion managing an aging parent at the height of your career stops being tiredness and starts being something you are not allowed to name. ## [How Do I Talk to My Siblings About Aging Parents When I Am the One Still Working](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/talking-to-siblings-aging-parent-working-professional) _2026-07-07 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ When you are the one still working full time, it starts to feel like your aging parent relies on you more than your siblings ever will. ## [When Your Aging Parent Calls During the Workday](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-calls-during-workday) _2026-06-30 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What the call is actually costing professional women who are balancing work and aging parents, and what to understand before it costs more than your afternoon ## [Everyone Keeps Saying You Are The Strong One. Here Is What That Is Actually Costing You At Work.](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/strong-one-aging-parent-family-responsibility-work-impact) _2026-06-23 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ What happens to your career when your family decides you are the one who handles the aging parent situation, and nobody thought to ask if that still works for you. ## [You Can Handle One Interruption. Here Is What To Do About The Fact That They Never Stop](https://theagingsociety.substack.com/p/aging-parent-interruptions-affecting-work-focus) _2026-06-16 · Susan Myers · The Aging Society- Balancing Work & Aging Parents_ How the accumulation of interruptions during the workday is costing professional women more than focus, and what to do before it costs more than that ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F4QWkvJV8LcA) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Do this now: Health Care Surrogate Form](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/do-this-now-health-care-surrogate) _2026-05-21 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ It's so simple, I promise. ## [Unhinged Grief](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/unhinged-grief) _2026-04-17 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ I do some weird things. Maybe they're not so weird? Can you normalize me? ## [So, your parent got a tough diagnosis. Now what?](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/so-your-parent-got-a-tough-diagnosis) _2026-03-12 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ Making sense of second opinions, treatment options, and tough conversations. ## [Is it too early to look at assisted living? (Probably not!)](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/is-it-too-early-to-look-at-assisted) _2026-02-05 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ A common mistake I hear when I ask friends about their mistakes is that they wish they had gotten their parent into assisted living earlier. ## [Does it matter? To get a dementia evaluation or not](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/does-it-matter-to-get-a-dementia) _2026-01-15 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ Fielding a question from a friend today: there's no cure for dementia, so does it matter whether you get a diagnosis? ## [Six Totally Doable Parent-Related Things To Do in 2026](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/six-totally-doable-parent-related) _2025-12-31 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ I refuse to call them Resolutions, but you can resolve to do these easyish things, yeah? ## [Grief hitting hard? Maybe write a thank-you note.](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/grief-hitting-hard-maybe-write-a) _2025-11-20 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ How leaning into your gratitude might help you deal with grief. ## [It's not parenting. (Or is it?)](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/its-not-parenting-or-is-it) _2025-11-06 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ I'm annoyed when caregiving for an aging parent is described as parenting. ## [Money, money, money! How to start talking about finances with your parent](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/i-dont-have-that-kind-of-money-its) _2025-10-02 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ Tips and conversation starters for your first talks about finances with your aging parent. ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mGpRNG1SQ4Ex) _2025-10-02 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Talk to your parent now about hospice](https://learnfrommymistakes.substack.com/p/what-is-hospice) _2025-09-18 · Lauren Klinger · Learn From My Mistakes_ How do you know whether your parent needs hospice? How do you talk to them about it?