The Abuse of Our Parents
By Cafe on Jan 10, 2008 in Baby Boomer, Irene Masiello | comments(3)
Our boomer generation has moved in ways no one could anticipate. But it’s not all for the best, because one of the novel phenomena with which many of us have to deal is the abuse of our parents, known as “elder abuse.” Studies suggest that as many as a third of us will go through it if we haven’t already. New York-based columnist Irene Masiello has. And now, she wants the rest of us to understand what we might have to expect, and what to do about it.
In the late 1990s, I was speeding down the highway of life, as many urban boomers do, and I was very much into the spirit of the times. The result was my brainchild: a cooperative network of alternative health care practitioners and those interested in attaining mind, body, and spirit balance through self-help and personal empowerment.
Like too many of us, though, I was ill-informed about an equally or maybe more imperative issue facing our generation, namely, elder abuse; I was ill-informed until it devastatingly struck home in 1999 when my own father became a victim. It was a painful and ugly way to get an education.
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