• Connections

    Eldercare: Another Country

    Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders This is the last paragraph of the first chapter: Freud taught our generation the importance of parental love. We know that parental love is formative, but no one has taught us about the importance of grandparental love. Especially as we get older, the bonding and nurturing go both ways. Connections help our children, our parents, and us, now and in the future. Only by caring for our parents will we be able to ask our children for help later. And only because of our children’s love of the old will they…