Try: Resentment often builds up between siblings because one sibling is taking on all responibility of caregiving information here are some reasons why other siblings may not do their share of caregiving the sibling feels that contributing financially is good enough a male sibling may feel that caregiving is only women women’s work the sibling may be grieving the situation and in denial over what is happening with their parent the sibling may be choosing to ignore the situation hoping it will go away and things will go back to the way they were the sibling may have too many of his or her own responsibilities and feels that he or she is incapable of helping the sibling lives far away the parent may only want one sibling to care for them or the sibling may believe this to be true when it is not you the caregiver aren’t asking for help you aren’t willing to share your parent parent’s attention with anyone else getting to the bottom of these issues will help ease stress and frustration in your family references adapted from information found in the book the complete eldercare planner by joy loverde

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Categories: Caregiver Needs&Support, Cognitive Intellectual, Communication, Emotional Psychological

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Keywords: Frustration resentment stress family

*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed