This personal essay is written by Amy Coupal, CEO of the Ontario Caregiver Association.
“Aren’t you emotional about this?” my sister Julia asked me over the phone from Calgary a few weeks ago.
We were having another conversation about my 86-year-old dad, Charles, moving out of the home we grew up in, here in Toronto.
The truth is I am emotional, but right now as his primary caregiver here on the ground, there’s so much to do, and in that moment that’s what I was focused on.
Sharing the caregiving load from a distance is a situation that could cause friction in the family,
