Liz O'Donnell

The “most wonderful time of the year” can be challenging, even under the best of circumstances. Food, family and festivities...

People often say they will never forget something – a person, a feeling, a moment, a day. One of those...

I was having dinner with my children after spending the day setting up my mother’s new assisted living apartment. My...

As summer winds down and COVID cases rise, many of us, likely most of us, are anxious about what’s ahead....

If you only knew part of my caregiving story, the part about both of my parents getting diagnosed with terminal...

There came a time in my adult life when I had to ask my stubborn, authoritarian father to heed my...

With more than 36 percent of the country vaccinated against COVID-19, and the CDC loosening the guidance on masks, many...

“For too long, caregivers — who are disproportionately women, and women of color, and immigrants — have been unseen, underpaid,...

At first my father lived a few miles down the road, in an assisted living apartment. He was mostly happy...

There’s a common response you often hear when you tell people that you are caring for an aging parent. “What...