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Author: Mary Ellington

Like many of my contemporaries sandwiched between generations I traded my empty nest for a room in the house where I grew up. Fifteen years ago I moved home to help care for my aging parents. My mother passed away and my father is currently in Hospice.

Writing about it helps me find a balance between struggles and triumphs of caregiving.

Book Review Passages in Caregiving, Turning Chaos into Condfidence

By Mary Ellington
  • Caregiver Issues

I recently read Gail Sheehy’s Passages in Caregiving. This article is both a review of the book and how it relates to my circumstances as a caregiver.

Goodbye Upstairs

By Mary Ellington
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare

This is a story about my father going through every closet in the house. I thought he was on a cleaning frenzy, but it turned out he was saying goodbye.

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