June 10, 2020

Practical Advice for Taking Care of Elderly Parents

June 10, 2020/ Mary Webb

I’ve written before about the pressure for people in mid-life taking care of aging parents. It can get tricky balancing your other responsibilities and ensuring you are there for your elderly parents. With time constraints and work pressures, it’s often difficult to find a spare moment for them. Many elderly people get lonely and bored. Human contact is so important for their wellbeing so it’s important to find practical ways to reach out to them.

March 04, 2020

Ham and Cheese? Or Peanut Butter and Jelly?

March 04, 2020/ Mary Webb

You’ve heard the term. The sandwich generation! In case you’re unsure, the definition for the sandwich generation is:

A generation of people, usually in their 40s to 70s, responsible for bringing up their own children and for the care of their aging parents.

For many of us in midlife, this is our reality.

August 23, 2018

A Time of Transition: Three Difficulties We Can Deal With Later in Life

August 23, 2018/ Mary Webb

As the saying goes, age is a privilege denied to many; getting older most certainly doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. As a mature person, you tend to be settled in your career and financially stable, you know yourself well and don’t tend to feel the pressures from things like peers or media telling us we need to be this or that. Getting older is a fantastic thing, and our mid and later decades can be a fantastic time to have fun and do everything we’ve always wanted. However, it does come with downsides too, and the following are common things that most of us have to face at one time or another. Here’s how you can deal with them.