Alright friends, it is Real Talk Time again on the Aging Care Coach blog. Over the past 6 weeks, many of you have visited aging family members that you may or may not see regularly. In recent visits, there are a few bits and pieces of your interactions that have stuck out in your mind. For some of you, these are more alarming and you know that it is probably past time to get help. Some of you, however, are finding ways to “justify” these incidents as stress, normal aging or lifelong challenges with details, personality issues, etc. I’m not a mind-reader, I haven’t been spying on your texts with your siblings and I haven’t been a part of your whispered conversations with loved ones… so how do I know this? I know what many of you are experiencing right now because I have experienced this in my own family situations and have worked with families reaching out for support in late December, January and February for the past 15 years. During my Masters’ program, I had the privileg