Small businesses can sometimes feel like families—but data show that right now many workers’ actual families are demanding ...

“There’s no way around it,” she says. Accepting that reality is helpful, as is cherishing what good moments they have. She ...

In the popular romantic comedy Love, Actually (2003) Laura Linney’s Sarah portrays a woman who has sacrificed promotion at her job and romantic opportunities out of a sense of duty towards caring for ...

Workers and their families are facing increasing pressures to manage their day-to-day responsibilities, including caring for ...

Millions of people over 65 care for grandkids, adult kids or aging parents and will also need care themselves. Building a ...

Care.com found that 90% of parents lost sleep, 80% cried (with the number rising to 90% for mothers), and 29% considered suicide or self-harm. The stress of managing caregiving responsibilities is ...

Jennifer Blalack already had nursed her husband back to health after a lymphoma diagnosis and helped care for her dying mother when her elderly father — a widower with a host of medical and mobility ...

Some people who provide care for an elder do not realize that everything they do is part of caregiving. They may say, "This is just what families do for each other," or "This is what friends are for." ...

When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1998, I flew from my home in New York City back to my parents’ farm in Iowa one weekend every month for more than a year to help my mother care for ...

Caring for elderly and infirm parents can be arduous and time intensive work that often falls unevenly upon the sibling who is most willing or logistically closest to assume the responsibility. Those ...