CAREGIVING: Aging with adventure - The challenge of caring

CAREGIVING:  Aging with adventure - The challenge of caring 
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA; by Eric Weld; 2/28/25, posted in our newsletter on 3/3/25 
I made a mistake. I took a hiatus from writing in this space about aging with adventure because I thought I was taking a hiatus from adventure. Boy, was I wrong. I errantly thought that spending more than a year caring for my elderly mother in her final time on earth was taking me away from adventure. I am honored to have enabled my mother’s final days spent at home — not her home, but my sister’s private home — instead of in a public or private nursing facility. ... I assumed, in taking on the role of her co-caretaker, I would temporarily preempt my semi-retirement modus operandi of striking out on great adventures. To the contrary, what I learned from spending nearly two years co-caring for my aging mother is that end-of-life care is, indeed, every bit an adventure on many levels. And of course, it’s certainly about aging. 
Editor's note: This son defines adventure as having four key components: "challenge, risk, education and movement.