How to Care for Aging Parents |  | Author: Virginia Morris
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 460
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1563054353
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874
UPC: 019628034359
EAN: 9781563054358
ASIN: 1563054353
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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Winner, Books for a Better Life Award and a selection of the Rodale Book Club Featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, CNN, CBS and other national programs The Washington Post calls How to Care for Aging Parents "a compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion.... What sets this book apart from other guides on aging is the recognition that parent care is an emotional roller coaster for both the parent, who may not be accustomed to being a dependent, and for the adult child, who is often frustrated by the overwhelming new task and the guilty feeling that she can't do more." "A work of great value, written with sensitivity and wisdom...it fulfills an obvious need better than anything I've seen." -- Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die "This is a tremendous work...truly excellent. It will be a great help to many people." -- Ronald Miller, M.D., medical director, geriatric assessment center at Yale- New Haven Hospital Compassionate, timely, and thoroughly researched, How to Care for Aging Parents tackles all the tough subjects: how to avoid "parenting" your parent, understanding what happens to the body in old age, easing caregiver guilt, getting help finding a nursing home, preparing for the time to say good-bye. Virginia Morris, a health-care journalist who cared for her own father through a terminal illness, has given us an indispensable source of information and support. Included in the book:
- Talking to your parents about tough issues
- Obtaining important legal documents
- Caring from afar
- Adapting to new parent/child roles
- Easing guilt, exhaustion, anger and grief
- Knowing when to intervene
- Finding good medical care
- Tending a failing body (vision, hearing, incontinence, depression, arthritis, etc.)
- Navigating within a hospital
- Aiding independence (living alone, driving, avoiding falls)
- Improving diet, exercise and social life
- Utilizing community services
- Managing home-care workers
- Choosing a nursing home
- Dealing with siblings, bosses and children
- Paying the bills
- Coping with dementia
- Working with hospice
- Growing from grief "How to Care for Aging Parents is well-researched and comprehensive...a practical resource...that can be of enormous assistance to contemporary older persons as well as to Baby Boomers and the generations that follow." -- Robert N. Butler, M.D., founder, National Institute on Aging
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Info on all aspects of the elderly immediately! January 22, 2000
Pam Tulman
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
The most amazing book I have ever borrowed from a friend to read. It is a most important book to have especially if you are "caring" for an elderly parent (in this case, my 93 year old father)and living many miles away (in my case, 3,000 miles). It is so easy to navigate and it is difinitely written for the layman--it gets right to the point and avoids the reader having to read on and on to get an answer. Very important facts in each chapter are highlighted in gray boxes. Thank you, Ms. Morris, for this great compilation on eldercare.
Finally, something I can really use! April 7, 2000
Sally J. Nottage (Eugene, OR USA)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Caring for my father and now my mother, this book saved me emotionally.I just don't know what I would have done without it. Open at any point and is easily understandable, a real tool with real solutions. Desperate friend calls it her Bible. Easily read,perfectly organized, concise, not cluttered where you have to dig for answers. It has everything, not just medical aspects. I can't say enough other than please just try it.
Highly recommended and very helpful September 19, 2000
Cathleen M. Walker (Massachusetts)
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book, and will be helpful for anyone facing the inevitable issue of parents or other relatives growing older and needing care of any kind. Easy to read through, as I have just done, it is also a wonderful resource to pull off the shelf as these issues manifest, from talking to your parents about what needs to be discussed as soon as possible, to knowing when to intervene and when to get out of the way, what questions to ask whom, and what to expect. Information about contacts and agencies is liberally sprinkled throughout the book, and a helpful index at the back helps you to find whatever you need at a moment's notice. An initial read-through makes you familiar with what the book has to offer, making it more familiar as the needs arise. Highly recommended.
A much needed resource on care for the elderly! September 4, 1999
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
As the number of "baby boomer" caregivers increases, so, too, has the number of books on how to best care for our aging parents. Virginia Morris book, How To Care for Aging Parents, is a personal favorite for several reasons. In layman's lingo she addresses almost every concern a caregiver might experience. She provides ample options and suggestions for dealing with those concerns. Additionally, she offers information on community and national resources to contact for help.Details relating to the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of aging are addressed as well as dying and bereavement issues. Likewise, housing alternatives, financial, and legal aspects are presented in a readable and clearly detailed manner. The challenge of caregiving for parents can be monumental at times. I only wish that this book had been in print sixteen years ago when I became a caregiver for my father following his stroke. Kudos to Virginia Morris for offering this much needed book. It will inform and encourage anyone who cares for our elderly.
Tremendously helpful during a difficult time October 16, 1999
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book helped me tremendously as I stuggled through a difficult time being both a parent to my children and having to care for an ill parent. The book is easy to use with helpful information and resources, as well as being emotionally supportive. Easily read, not cover to cover, but as I needed help and support at different moments I picked it up. I have kept it next to my bedside...
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