This week, volunteers and staff from Colorado headed to Washington, D.C. to advocate on behalf of AARP members and all older Americans about the crucial issues of Family Caregiving and Social Security. While meeting with members of Congress, volunteers and staff made these crucial asks:
My husband’s mother was “losing it.” She started a fire in her apartment after she forgot to turn off a burner on her stove. She was demanding when a family member would take her grocery shopping and she would insist on using her bundle of coupons for various items, a process that would often take as long as two hours. Her mood was never good. There were several panic trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night.