NEW YORK — When Lynda Steele’s father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a couple of years ago, she faced an impossible choice.
Continue as host of her popular Vancouver radio show, and try to juggle caregiving duties — or step away from her job, and spend more time with her dad in the last months of his life?
In the last week of May, she finalized that choice, and signed off the air.
“I went through periods of great guilt, thinking of my dad by himself in a room, wondering why his kids aren’t visiting,” Steele says. “Parking my career just seemed like the right thing to do.”
It is a life-altering decision being faced by more and more people. As the Baby Boomers, …
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