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This book is intended to act as a guide, not a follow this path and all will be well roadmap. There are as many routes to the objective, safety and sanity, as there are families taking the journey. Just as you plan a trip, Slepner hopes to help you plan your path through your relative's older years. Looking at the map to plan your route and to check for alternate pathways is an excellent way to be sure that your trip is as smooth as possible. Planning for your family's older years will have much the same outcome if you take the time to plan for the journey and anticipate obstacles you may face along the way.  |
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Rachel Yoder, a New Order Amish woman, lost her husband and son in a tragic accident two years ago. Now, returning to her aging parents with her young daughter, she has resigned herself to the li. |
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"If You Remember Metal Skates" is an authentic baby boomer story. It offers a nostalgic look at growing up in the fifties and sixties, and surviving the seventies. The author also shares her experiences of parenting, teaching, weight gain, aging, and coping with elderly parents. Although the story is told from the author's perspective, many of her recollections will resonate with baby boomers all across the country. |
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$24.95 |
When Your Parent Needs You acknowledges that caring for an aging parent is an all-encompassing experience that affects every aspect of life. Through interviews with caregivers and experts on aging, this video addresses issues such as becoming your parent's caregiver, balancing work and personal life with the never-ending tasks of caregiving, coping with negative emotions and anxieties, and caring with compassion. When Your Parent Needs You emphasizes that caring for an aging parent can be more than an experience that is merely survived. It is an opportunity for personal growth, and most importantly, a window of time to give back to your parents and sha [...]. |
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Mary Pipher, author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Reviving Ophelia , which charts the troubled passage of girls into adolescence, has nimbly covered yet another psychological passage: that into old age, which May Sarton called "a foreign country." Pipher reveals that the greatest shame for today's elders--most of whom survived the Depression--is not being self-sufficient. The majority of them stoically prefer to keep their feelings to themselves, and this is why it's so difficult to convince older parents to accept or even discuss such issues as physical and mental health, finances, eldercare, or living wills. This directly conflic [...]. |
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Elder abuse has been called the crime of the 21st century. Everyone’s parent is at risk when certain factors are present. Don’t allow your aging parent to be ripped off because you weren’t paying attention. This minibook explains how to manage an aging parent’s money legally and safely, and with confidence that you’re doing the right thing. Author, Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, is a registered nurse and an attorney with over 40 years of combined experience in her two professions. She is a consultant and mediator with a practice in San Rafael, California. Money can be a sticky issue for families, especially when one is faced with [...]. |
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First published in 1976, You and Your Aging Parent is a classic--the first book to shed light on the challenging relationship between adult children and their aging parents, illuminating the emotional, health, and financial difficulties that elderly parents and their children face during the senior years. Marking the 30th anniversary of this highly popular book, the new and revised edition addresses the changes that have taken place in the last three decades, but it still embraces the authors' fundamental insight--that the difficulties and challenges of the aging process are as much a family affair as in any other phase of life. Both a sensitive exp [...]. |
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$16.00 |
Caring for an aging parent can be a journey of a thousand miles, each one sparking a breakthrough in personal growth and understanding. Coming of Age with Aging Parents charts these milestones through compassionate and sometimes humorous real-life stories. Probing questions following each story help you reframe events in your own eldercare experiences so you can emerge with not only fresh perspectives on eldercare but increased purpose, power, and happiness. |
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$11.95 |
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." If words could describe parenthood, these by Elizabeth Stone may just sum up the experience for many parents. Meanwhile, Playwright George Bernard Shaw has given us the much broader observation that, "Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."Probably as much has been said about being a parent as there are drops in the ocean but one thing is certain - one can not really know what it is like being a parent until one actually becomes, themselves, a parent. [...]. |
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Written for those affected by an elderly parent's inability to continue living autonomously, "When Aging Parents Can't Live Alone provides comprehensive information on in-house help, retirement communities, assisted living options, and nursing facilities. Financial, medical, and emotional considerations are discussed, enabling families to make healthy decisions about this sometimes delicate adn emotional situation. |
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Eva Brown, who coined the acronym 'ACMI' (Adult Children of the Mentally Ill), wrote this book as a supportive and encouraging guide for dealing with the challenging legacy of growing up with a mentally ill parent. Richly peppered with quotes from interviews with ACMIs, My Parent's Keeper covers issues ranging from being a 'parentified child' to dealing with unstable aging parents. |
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A comprehensive and empathetic program for addressing, planning, and putting into effect long-term elder care Long - term care for aging parents is a sensitive, often difficult, but ultimately inevitable issue with which all of us will have to cope sooner or later. The Parent Care Conversation offers a step-by-step approach for families to follow that will enable them to develop workable plans of action. By first addressing the emotional aspects of long-term care that take into account the parents' feelings and wishes, then integrating the practical and financial components, this book will open the door for a critical exchange of information and [...]. |