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Health & Fitness

Making It Count With Your Parents

I saw the movie Nebraska recently and was struck by the younger son’s realization on how important it was to his dad to make a lifelong dream come true, no matter how irrational it may have seemed to everyone else. His son originally agreed with his mom, his older brother and everyone else – Dad must have some dementia, doesn’t really know what’s going on, and is being duped by a particular situation.

How many sandwich generation adults, juggling the responsibilities of everyday life between careers, relationships and children along with caring for aging and ill parents, have faced the same struggle?

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