It's Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents

[Played Aug. 6 on AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Michelle Boyaner's engaging, insightful, down-to-earth, humorous, heartwarming, 86-minute documentary that consists of archival photographs and film clips and focuses on the filmmaker who cared for her elderly, estranged mother Elaine Boyaner George and hoarder father Morris in California after they declined mentally and physically and follows a few of the more than 42 million adult caregivers, including Brother V. Kenneth caring for retired monks in a retirement home, Maxine caring for her 96-year-old actress/singer mother Esther Lapidus, Cecile caring for her mom Manuela, Michael caring for his mother Florence, and Evette caring for veteran father Robert, as they struggle to take care of aging parents.
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