We all do it: reserve the right to change or shade our story for different audiences. But according to Barry Jacobs’s AARP article, “when an aging parent gives diverging accounts of herself to her adult children, it can inflame the natural tendency of rivalrous siblings to disagree about what that parent's condition and needs are.”
Jacobs explains four different ways family caregivers can sort through a care receiver's messages to figure out what she truly needs.
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