There is beneath the many challenges of caregiving to elderly parents one simple paradox.
Roles have reversed.
The hands that used to lift you up to grab the handlebars on the jungle gym are the same hands that now need your help to walk across a room or rise from a chair or bed.
The gift of reassurance is the cycle of life powered by many small gestures in the course of a day or a lifetime.
©Pat Coakley 2010
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