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May 11, 2018

My brother Glenn and I moved my mom from her house in Lafayette, Colorado, last month to live in a memory care facility nearby. She’s had dementia for a long time, and it’s gotten noticeably worse for the past couple of years. I’m still sorting through how it felt to take her out of her house, and how it feels now.
November 24, 2014

For my role as social media fellow for AARP's Asian American Community, I've had the pleasure of meeting, speaking with and writing about some exceptional people. Here's another in a series of pieces I'm cross-posting from the AARP AAPI Community Facebook page that I manage: Frances Kakugawa’s new book was perfectly timed, to be published in November for National Caregivers Month....

September 15, 2014

I'm a baby boomer, so I'm already an AARP member. If you're not familiar with AARP, people make fun of the non-profit organization as a national group for old people, like grandpas and grandmas. People who aren't members feign shock when AARP is mentioned and joke about how they're too young and dread getting the promotional mail from the organization when they approach 50, which is when you qualify to be a member. A lot of people I know who are even over 50 joke about how they're in denial and won't consider joining AARP. They should, though. It's a pretty huge, pretty amazing organization, and since as of this year, every Baby Boomer (the boom ran from 1946-1964) is 50+, it's an organization that's not just for "seniors" or "elderly."