We would like to hear about your experiences of caring for elderly parents and how this has affected your life In a recent Guardian opinion piece, Lucinda Holdforth described her experience of caring for her late mother , and her complicated feelings after she died. It is a common human theme that good parents can never really rest for worrying about their children. But it seems to me that a recip...
We would like to hear about your experiences of caring for elderly parents and how this has affected your life In a recent Guardian opinion piece, Lucinda Holdforth described her experience of caring for her late mother , and her complicated feelings after she died. It is a common human theme that good parents can never really rest for worrying about their children. But it seems to me that a reciprocal burden exists for good children. We are never entirely free from the psychic weight of our parents’ needs, love and ambitions for us in our youth, and increasingly we now find ourselves taking on guardian-style responsibilities for them during their prolonged old age. I finally understood the accumulated heaviness of the burden I had carried about a year after my mother died. At 59, I was at last an orphan, which meant I could turn off my phone each night. I woke up one day with the most complete feeling of creative liberty and personhood I’d ever experienced. That feeling has not left me since. Continue reading...
Financial policy committee makes warning over ‘Trumpflation’ increases, as average two-year fixed rate hits 5.84% Business live – latest updates The US-Israel war on Iran could end up increasing monthly mortgage payments for more than one million more UK households, the Bank of England has warned, adding that the conflict had dealt “a substantial negative supply shock” to the world economy. Financ...
Financial policy committee makes warning over ‘Trumpflation’ increases, as average two-year fixed rate hits 5.84% Business live – latest updates The US-Israel war on Iran could end up increasing monthly mortgage payments for more than one million more UK households, the Bank of England has warned, adding that the conflict had dealt “a substantial negative supply shock” to the world economy. Financial market jitters over the conflict in the Middle East have resulted in banks pulling about 1,500 mortgage products, with many banks raising interest rates on their remaining 7,000 home loan products in recent weeks, the Bank’s financial policy committee (FPC) said. Continue reading...