Postcards from Planet Eldercare -- The Final Frontier

Take two retired Boomers. Add one elderly mother-in-law and her deranged Chihuahua, a steady diet of sleep deprivation, and a passel of monotonous routines. What do you get? Days (and sometimes nights) filled with laundry, mixed nuts, repeats of repeats, and better-laugh-or-you'll-cry moments.

Late-life care can be the elephant in the room. We ignore it because, well … what do you do with something large and foreign that you’d rather not discuss? Should you wait until it devours the housepl...