It’s the stuff of nightmares for every child of an elderly parent – the phone call in the middle of the night or the middle of your work day: “Your father fell. Your mother’s just not quite right. We think there’s something wrong.”
And suddenly, there you are, with a parent who needs a new home – possibly yours.
This story was a very personal one to report on and write – I received one of those phone calls myself in March 2008. It was written for HomeStyle, a nationally syndicated newspaper feature section produced by Content That Works.
