Young Caregivers: Navigating Unexpected Roles

When a young person becomes the steady one for a parent with young-onset dementia,

the world feels upside down. One day they’re the child, the next they’re

the helper, the comforter, the memory keeper. It’s a role they never asked for,

but somehow they keep showing up. And in the showing up, they grow resilience

they didn’t even know they had. Still, they need space to feel their feelings.

They need reminders that their childhood isn’t erased just because responsibility arrived early.

Behind every strong young caregiver is a heart doing the best it can with what it never

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