01-04-2026 12:38 via theguardian.com

Tell us your experience of caring for elderly parents

We would like to hear about your experiences of caring for elderly parents and how this has affected your lifeIn a recent Guardian opinion piece, Lucinda Holdforth described her experience of caring for her late mother, and her complicated feelings after she died.It is a common human theme that good parents can never really rest for worrying about their children. But it seems to me that a reciprocal burden exists for good children. We are never entirely free from the psychic weight of our parent
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