Alta Live: The Challenges of Aging Parents

How can a middle-aged woman in New York care for her aging immigrant parents in the Bay Area? She can’t. In “Aging in Place,” Min Liao’s latest for Alta Journal, the author relays a childhood of helping her mother and father navigate a new life in the United States, from essential errand runs to the confusion of rapidly evolving technology to decades of feelings of otherness. Now, just as she’s hitting her groove, Liao returns to the Bay Area to help her folks as they tackle a new set of challenges. Liao, one of the many tasked with the responsibility of assisting aging parents, sits down with Alta senior editor Matt Haber to discuss the generational issues and sacrifices of immigration and re-establishment as she returns to her family home in California after 30 years.