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...ba href=/dementia/a/b and coping with changes in personality would be helpful for parents helping their children adapt.

Q: And what do you do when your loved one dies?

Again, be direct with family and friends, and set limits.

Knowing your own limits is probably a very important thing as well.

People are so wrapped up in caregiving that after it's over, they can break down, physically, in terms of getting ill, and mentally.

Getting support from very beginning is going to help you cope in the most effective way possible.

I hear people say they just want things to go back to normal, but you're making a new normal.

You have to realize that things have changed, or you're not going to cope with what has happened.

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Last June, while Donald focused on running the couple’s Philadelphia-based full-service accounting firm, Celestine cared for Evelyn around-the-clock.

The decision to leave a job—or even your own business—to care for a loved one usually isn’t the most attractive option, but for some it’s the only affordable choice.

On average, a home healthcare worker costs $19 an hour, a homemaker has a $17 an hour price tag, and a semi-private room at a nursing home will run $64,000 a year, according to the MetLife Mature Market Institute survey, Nursing Home and Home Care Costs.

Medicare does not cover the costs of long-term care, unless temporary care is needed to treat injury or illness.

Citing 2002 U.S.

Census Bureau data, the institute says that not counting the equity in their homes, the median net worth of Americans age 65-69 is $27,588.

Evelyn’s pension made her ineligible for Medicaid, and Medicare did not cover the spectrum of care she needed, so Evelyn’s savings paid for most of the services.

After some quick calculations, Donald saw that his mother’s savings wouldn’t cover assisted living, so they decided to sell the house Evelyn still called home to pay for her care.

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