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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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$15 |
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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$18 |
If age is Another Country, then we must all learn to speak its language. As our parents and grandparents grow older, it's hard to find the words to talk about medicine, loneliness, love, forgetfulness, or selling the house. We need a language that bridges the gap between generations and takes into account that our elders can be just as reluctant to ask for or even accept our time and our efforts as we are eager to understand the wants and needs of people who lived before television, Freudian psychology, e-mail, and the first trip to the moon. There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our a [...]. |
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$9.95 |
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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$14.95 |
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. |
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$15.95 |
How do you find a nursing home? And can you pay for it? Are you eligible for any financial help from the government? How do you find a good doctor? What is the power of attorney and when do you need it? How do you avoid becoming your parent's "parent"? Virginia Morris, a health-care journalist who cared for her own father through a terminal illness, has taken a tough subject and turned it into a smart, compassionate, timely book for everyone with aging parents. It's all here-the emotional, medical, financial, and legal issues. She covers what is normal in old age and what is not, and how to avoid "ageism"-the attitude (prevalent even among doctors) [...]. |