Watch: For millennial caregivers, becoming the ‘parent for a parent’ with Alzheimer’s comes with agonizing challenges
Millennial caregivers face the same ups and downs as their older peers — but they take on the role at a point in their lives that can compound the challenges…
WEYMOUTH, Mass. — Kamaria Moore-Hollis hadn’t even turned 30 when her mother, Mary, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. She hadn’t yet started her job in social services for the state, or gotten married, or bought her house — all milestones she would mark after she became a caregiver.
“I grieved her loss probably five years ago,” Moore-Hollis, now 34, said. “I don’t have an adult relationship with my mother. I can’t talk about frustrations at work or marriage or you know,
