Jul 10
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Independence
The long holiday weekend celebrating the Fourth of July is recognition of the efforts of our founding fathers 234 years ago. They took steps into a giant unknown when declaring independence.
Aging grandparents and parents have a similar challenge, but on a personal level. After years of living their lives as they wanted to, the effects of age begin to make their own declaration. The level of independence becomes a question for family members to be involved with, sooner rather than later.
“People don’t fear aging, they fear disability and dependence”, says Marsha Vollbrecht.
These are the fears that make a declaration of independence by aging grandparents and parents as challenging on a personal level as a war among two groups that were once one nation.