Sentence examples for frail parents from inspiring English sources

Everywhere, women make up the vast majority of carers of elderly relatives, with millions dashing between growing children and frail parents.

Elderly spouses will continue to struggle to care for each other, and adult children will strain to balance jobs and the needs of frail parents and their own children.

As the burden of child-rearing and, increasingly, caring for frail parents, too (the Queen's Speech included measures to support this "sandwich generation") still weighs disproportionately on women, it's they who have to spin the plates.

— Some days, the middle-aged bus driver would drop his frail parents off at the Muddy Cup coffee house in Beacon, where the three lived together in a big, brown Victorian house with bubble-gum pink trim.

It's possible to do it, but the child that is born will have elderly and increasingly frail parents, who may not be fit and healthy enough to bring them up.

Developers said they were drawn to the city because of its relatively large population of affluent older people and its heavy concentration of the principal marketing target for assisted living: middle-aged professionals seeking comfortable and convenient surroundings for their frail parents.

Another possible option might be to hire a caregiver to escort the frail parent to visit the parent on the dementia unit.

Chronic strains or ongoing difficulties center around "financial concerns... caring for a disabled child or frail parent, and troubled relationships with coworkers" (Thoits).

Friends and colleagues with frail, aging parents make lots of phone calls and trans-Atlantic trips.

Many newly retired folk sign up for voluntary work, and many more get drafted into family duties, looking after grandchildren or frail old parents.

Especially for Hampl, who spent much of her adult life in service to her "frail, failing parents," always within their reach, living only "a long walk" from her girlhood home.