Expert advice on how to age your parents. Yulia Fattakhova / Getty Images/iStockphoto
ADVICE – Loss of vigilance, autonomy, illness… Witnessing the various signs of aging in our parents can be – for an adult child – destabilizing or even painful. The experts’ keys to relaxing and making the most of this delicate period.
Our parents are getting old. Knowing and expecting it is one thing, attending and its concrete manifestations is another. This realization can be painful, dizzying, and sometimes makes us adults hesitate. “From a certain age, the aging of our parents reveals to us their vulnerability, which for a long time we did not want to see, or which we did not face, if before they were autonomous and active”, comments Benoit Verdon. , clinical psychologist and book author Psychological aging, published Que sais-je (1). The reactions in this regard are very individual and varied, they depend on the previous relationship with them. “These are often marked by conflicting experiences of some happy moments, others conflicting; moments when we expect our parents to advise and reassure us about the future, and others when we wish…
Source: Le Figaro
