{"id":39217,"date":"2025-07-04T22:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39217\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:46:22","slug":"even-an-expert-can-end-up-with-a-stress-induced-medical-condition-from-the-care-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39217\/","title":{"rendered":"Even an expert can end up with a stress-induced medical condition from the Care Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Wilkinson, is a former ACAT (Aged Care Assessment Team) assessor who wrote &#8220;My Parents are Aging what the heck do I do?&#8221; a book on navigating the aged care system.\u00a0Yet when caring for her elderly parents and teenage children, the stress of the care squeeze left her with a lifelong, stress-induced medical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wilkinson spoke to Brett Worthington on Mornings about dealing with the emotional and financial stress of navigating a complex system for access to care, when to ask for help, grief, loss of identity and first steps to take when you know you need help. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woman, young man holding a phone and an older woman seated gather around a Father's Day cake and framed photo fo old man\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4e747feef27c172f7411f111e6e6a97f\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/> Coral Wilkinson celebrates Father&#8217;s Day with her son Josh, brother Alan (on the phone), mother Aida and a picture of her late Dad, Merv.(Supplied by Coral Wilkinson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coral Wilkinson, is a former ACAT (Aged Care Assessment Team) assessor who wrote &#8220;My Parents are Aging what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[31410,210,517,4757,31411,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-39217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-care-squeeze","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-parenting","12":"tag-sandwich-generation","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114797399001724793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}