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How to care for the elder who once cared for you

My grandmother raised me but now she has dementia and keeps asking for her own mother and I do not know how to comfort her or honor what she gave me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The reversal of caregiver roles challenges the fundamental structure of intergenerational debt and gratitude.

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