Reframe an Ageing Parent's Increasing Needs as a Transition Phase

Ageing parental dependency arrives without a roadmap. The roles shift, the dynamics change, and the emotions are genuinely complicated: grief, resentment, love, and guilt often operating simultaneously. The crisis frame makes everything harder. This reframes the period using a developmental lens, explains what is likely happening for the parent, names the mistakes adult children most commonly make, and describes what the shift actually asks of you.

My parent is {AGE_AND_SITUATION} and their increasing needs are creating tension in my family. The main issues are: {MAIN_ISSUES}.

Help me reframe this as a transition phase rather than a crisis:
1. What developmental and psychological framework exists for understanding adult children navigating increasing parental dependency
2. What is typically happening for the parent at this stage that explains some of the difficult behaviour or dynamics
3. The most common mistakes adult children make during this phase and what drives them
4. A practical reframe: what this period asks of me as an adult child that is different from what it asked of me as a younger person, and what a healthier approach to that shift looks like

Be direct. Do not soften the difficulty of this.