Caring for Your Parents: The Complete Family Guide (AARP) by Hugh Delehanty and Elinor Ginzler, featuring a foreword by Mary Pipher, is a reference resource for adult children with older parents facing diminishing independence. Based on a 32-page National Magazine Award-nominated special feature, this book draws on AARP’s deep eldercare expertise to guide readers through a caregiving approach that transforms duty into a journey of emotional development and resolution.
Caring for Your Parents is full of practical tips and inspiring true stories, featuring both the innovations of real people coping with eldercare and field-tested recommendations from AARP’s staff of experts. It offers concise but up-to-date information on financial management (including how to avoid consumer scams and plan the disposition of an estate), age-related physical changes, Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders, Medicare, housing and nursing home care, and practical caregiving techniques illustrated with anecdotes from seniors and caregivers. Topics covered include family care planning meetings, long-distance caregiving, self-care, and coping with death. Short yet current resource guides at the end of each chapter lists essential help lines, websites, publications, and organizations.
Perhaps most remarkable is the emotional advice. This book discusses and offers initiation strategies for “The Conversation” regarding parents’ wants and needs in care. It even suggests specific techniques for handling this sensitive subject. This topic is often glossed over or neglected entirely in other caregiving guides.
Caring for Your Parents is at once useful and uplifting, offering both sensitive counsel and a practical road map through the rough terrain many face as their parents age. It will take you from overwhelmed or hopeless to ready to face forward and take on this physically, mentally, and emotionally difficult process. A comprehensive package essential for all collections.
Also recommended: The Eldercare Handbook: Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions by Stella Henry.Publisher: SterlingPublish date: April 1, 2008256 pagesISBN-10: 140275857XISBN-13: 978-1402758577
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