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[quote=Anonymous]If you live far from family that you want to help  care for, how do you do it? 
If you are the nearby relative who resents siblings for living far away and not helping with aging family, what would you like them to do differently?

I live 6 hours from family. Everyone else is withing a few miles of each other and does a lot to chip in to help with aging parents and grandparents. I feel horribly guilty for not being able to do more. I try to do little things like sending the grandparents extra pics of the kids and things that I know brighten their day. For the caregivers I on rare occasion send a gift cert for a restaurant or something so they can unwind, for big birthdays I try to send flowers etc. Money is tight so I don't do these things as often as I would like. I'm the baby of the family so I have the youngest kids and the tightest budget. We visit fairly often, but that's still tough to do and doesn't make up for the day to day grind they're all doing together.

We have a tight knit family, and most would never ever move out of the area, but in our case DC is where the jobs are and we needed to make that difficult decision. Is there anything I can do to ease the burden of the siblings and cousins or any other way to let them know I appreciate what they're doing and didn't purposely ditch them? They haven't expressed any issues with me, but I feel guilty and far away.

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