When older parents resist help or advice, use these tips to cope
When older parents resist help
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When older parents resist help
Dealing with an older parent who stubbornly resists offers of help isn’t easy. What’s needed are respect, empathy, and appreciation of the older person’s autonomy.
Dealing with a stubborn or resistant older parent can be a difficult problem for adult children. Family caregivers and professionals have some hard-won lessons on how to manage these relationships.
Dealing with an older parent who stubbornly resists offers of help isn’t easy. But the solution isn’t to steamroll them.
It was a regrettable mistake. But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time. Her 80-year-old mother, Harriet Burkel, had fallen at