Patience with Aging Parents

Are the frustrations of caring for elderly relatives getting you down?

People laugh about the 'generation gap', but that gap is no laughing matter when you find yourself having to provide care and support to your own old folks, and you realize that their particular experience of the process of aging is throwing up unexpected, and sometimes insoluble, problems. For you.

It's never easy to see the people who once cared for you, who made all the decisions and could look out for themselves and you as well, begin to struggle with the ordinary, everyday business of living. You can't predict what the next challenge will be. Is it not having enough to do in retirement? Is it failing faculties - eyesight, hearing? Is it mobility issues? Is it short term memory becoming unreliable? Is it loneliness?

The unique challenge of being patient with aging parents

Although aging is universal, everybody's experience is unique. And everyone who cares for elderly parents also has a unique experience of the process. Both sides encounter frustrations, and find their patience sorely tried. But the patience challenge is rather different for you, whose life goes on outside your parents' situation, and will still go on after they have passed on.

Your challenge is about being able to switch into an appropriate 'mode' when you are with your parents, so that the time you are together (which will not last forever) can go as smoothly and enjoyably as possible without becoming destructively burdensome.

How do you do that?

Hypnosis can help you find a new level of tolerance

Patience with aging parents is an audio hypnosis session created by psychologists that will help you make this switch.