“If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.”

American author, journalist, and lecturer

Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She is known for her seventeen books and for high-profile magazine writing in outlets such as New York and Vanity Fair. Sheehy helped shape the movement Tom Wolfe called New Journalism, also known as creative nonfiction. In that style, writers used literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, and status details, and sometimes entered the story more closely to report a central character’s thoughts.