Carol Stanley was the family caregiver for the last five years of her father’s life. After a long and courageous battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dementia, and bladder cancer, at age 95, he decided for himself it was time to go. He stopped eating. He died peacefully on December 12, 2014. She highlights her own life and her father’s, and the effects on her of her family caregiving for him. She identifies the most challenging of the challenges she experienced as family caregiver for him, for family caregivers like her who are themselves seniors and are
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