31 Quotes About Caring For Elderly Parents

Caring for aging parents can be one of the most difficult tasks you are faced with. Now referred to as the sandwich generation, many families are having to care for aging parents while also caring for their children and their families. Here are some great quotes about caring for elderly parents that will keep you encouraged.

“About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.”

“Although the days are busy and the workload is always growing, there are still those special moments when someone says or does something and you know you’ve made a difference in someone’s life. That’s why I became a nurse.”

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

“Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.”

“By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.”

“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”

“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”

“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall.”

“Failure to plan ahead is a plan sure to FAIL!”

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”

“I believe that most caregivers find that they inherit a situation where they just kind of move into caregiving.”

“I love you but I got to love me more.”

“I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.”

“I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.”

“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”

“Keep your patience and give all the dignity to our blessed seniors that they have earned over a life time.”

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”

“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.”

“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”

“People don’t like getting older, but they do like changing.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“Refire—an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude.”

“The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes.”

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”

“They rarely look at Baba — the teenagers — and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.”

“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things which you think you cannot do.”

There are various ways you can look at relieving stress of caring for an aging parent. This will help to keep you refreshed and energized.