50 Questions to Ask Your Aging Parent
Fifty questions across seven themes, and honest advice on how to ask them without it feeling like an interview. The last section holds the ones families most often regret not asking.
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You Don't Need More to Talk About. You Need Something to Look At.
I asked a caregiving forum how families spend time with an aging parent in a care facility. Around 150 people answered, and almost nobody named a conversation topic. Nearly every one of them named a thing to look at.
August 11, 2026
The Most Famous Diaries in History Were Never Meant to Be Read
Pepys wrote in cipher, Potter invented her own code, and Twain sealed his for a hundred years. What they were hiding from explains why most families end up with the wrong version of their parents.
August 11, 2026