My name is Susan Myers. I am the founder of The Aging Society, a senior living expert and a certified End-of-Life Doula. I have spent more than two decades sitting with families in the hardest moments of their lives, not as an observer, but as the person they called when they did not know what to do next.

I also know what it is to be that person. Not the professional. The family member. The one at the kitchen table trying to hold everything together with two hands that never felt big enough.

That is where this work began. And it is why nothing here is theoretical.

Why The Aging Society Was Created
Balancing Work & Aging Parents

Twenty Plus Years Has Taught Me A Thing Or Two About Balancing Work And Aging Parents

There's a moment when love isn't the question. The question is how to help.

For me, that moment came at our kitchen table.

My late husband was fighting bladder cancer. My son, Aiden, was ten years old and watching everything. And I was holding the entire emotional and logistical weight of our family, medication schedules, insurance paperwork, late-night fears, decisions that could not wait and could not be wrong, with two hands that never felt big enough.

I was passed over for a promotion I had earned, because the role needed travel I could not give while my husband was sick. I said yes to my family and let the promotion go.

Two years later, my father had a massive stroke. He refused a feeding tube. The hospital could not keep him. We made the hospice decision as a family. And I was passed over for a second promotion, for the same reason, during the same kind of season.

There was never a question about what mattered most. But I learned something in those years that stayed with me.