How do our feelings towards our families evolve...

I am very interested in how adult children deal with parents who are living longer, and often with chronic illness. How do our relationships change over the many years since we were a family unit? Spouses, discussions of inheritance, the role of caretaking often falling on one sibling, and parents meteing out what we kids think of as their currency: their attention and their money. It is confusing but also fascinating to me. As a student working towards a Masters in Social Work and a hoped-for practice dealing with these issues, I want to use this space to share some of my thoughts, get input from others, and provide links and resources as I learn them.