Dilemmmas of Aging Archives - Aging, caregiving and the journey through the second half of life

Major Dave and The Dilemma of the Stairs

July 19, 2021

“Things do not always go according to plan.” David Richo from The Five Things We Cannot Change… The plan has always been for boomers to transition to smaller, one-story homes in the last phase of life. The underlying assumption of…

The Drama of Control Never Gets Easier and Never Goes Away

August 2, 2020

Control is the current we ride to the end. Sometimes It’s buried in a dilemma between two unsavory choices and no escape hatch. Sometimes heroic efforts to facilitate control provoke dilemmas we never saw coming. My point is that control…

The Dreaded Outcome Boomers Never Envisioned

June 26, 2019

Nursing homes are one of the top three dreaded outcomes that Boomers fear the most. The other two are Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, a trifecta of destinies they hope to be spared from at the end of life. While none…

Read The Dilemma Card Once A Week…

January 8, 2019

You can’t manage dilemmas with problem solving strategies `Dilemmas show up and have no intention of leaving Key blog posts about dilemmas: The Unavoidable Dilemmas of the Last Phase of Life The Rise of Dilemmas Problems Versus Dilemmas of Aging…