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Getting older looks different in every family. Real talk on the conversations, the changes and the good days still ahead.

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Parents

Your dad stopped leaving the house. Here's how to get him curious again.

It usually isn't laziness and it usually isn't stubbornness. What's going on, what helps, and what to stop saying.

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Parents

The first conversation about driving, without the fight

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Two older men talking animatedly on a sofa
Parents

Twelve hobbies people pick up after 75 and stick with

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An older couple dancing in their living room
Parents

When Mom says "I'm fine" and you know she isn't

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A mother and her grown daughter sharing a warm embrace
Parents

Moving a parent closer: what we wish we'd known

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A daughter walking arm in arm with her older mother

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Two older men talking animatedly on a sofa
Parents

The first conversation about driving, without the fight

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An older couple dancing in their living room
Parents

Twelve hobbies people pick up after 75 and stick with

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A mother and her grown daughter sharing a warm embrace
Parents

When Mom says "I'm fine" and you know she isn't

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A daughter walking arm in arm with her older mother
Parents

Moving a parent closer: what we wish we'd known

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An older couple sitting together on a couch at home
Parents

The holiday visit checklist: what to quietly notice

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An older couple smiling and holding hands on a couch
Parents

Your parent remarried. Now what?

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From our sister company · Home Happenings

Bring the fun home.

Home Happenings books vetted local pros for painting, piano, walks, cooking, cards and gentle fitness, right at your parent's home in Essex County, NJ.

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Painting
Hands playing a piano
Piano
An older couple taking a walk through a park
Walks
An older man cooking at the stove with family
Cooking
Two adults playing cards at a wooden dining table
Cards
A group of older women in a gentle movement class
Gentle fitness