When The Child Becomes The Parent
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There comes a point in the lives of many adult children when they are faced with the challenge of changing roles with their parents. The child becomes the parent and the parent becomes the child who needs their grown offspring to help them as they get older. Laura Tamblyn-Watts, the CEO of CanAge, an advocacy organization for seniors in Canada, has written an important book to help adult children deal with challenges they’ve never faced before.  We talked with her recently Get full access to a2a: the art 2 aging at theart2aging.substack.com/subscribe
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