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$24.95 |
"Elder Rage" is a Book-on-the-Month Club selection, a first for a book on caregiving. It is a riveting, often LOL humorous, non-fiction novel which chronicles Jacqueline Marcell's trials, tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. "Elder Rage" is also an extensive self-help book with solutions for effective management medically, behaviorally, socially, legally, financially, and emotionally of challenging elders who resist care. Answers difficult "how to" questions such as how to get obstinate elders to: accept cleaning and caregiving help, see a different doctor, give up driving, attend adult day care, eat, take med [...].  |
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$9.98 |
William Wharton's startling and moving novel about fathers and sons got an above-average film adaptation from TV's Gary David Goldberg, who wrote and directed. While the film couldn't capture the sadness and wonder of Wharton's worlds-within-worlds construct, it did get exactly right the notion of how one closes the distance from a parent or a child. Danson plays an ambitious businessman forced to put work aside to care for his aging parents (Jack Lemmon and Olympia Dukakis) when his mother is hospitalized. Mom, it turns out, is a domineering dictator who has stifled Dad all these years; with her out of the way, Dad suddenly recognizes the possibilitie [...]. |
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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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Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail [...]. |
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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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$17.95 |
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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$16.95 |
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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$14.95 |
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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$14.00 |
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 [...]. |
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$13.99 |
Do You Have An Aging Parent Who - - Blames you for everything that goes wrong? Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time? Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined? Make unreasonable and or irrational demands of you? Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though there's no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one. While it's rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration. For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from [...]. |
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Practical guide for people whose parents are still competent and on their own but showing signs of aging-like they should stop driving but won't, etc. |