Aging Parent Books

Eldercare 911: The Caregiver's Complete Handbook for Making Decisions

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Directed especially towards women, who often shoulder the burden of caring for elderly parents, this book delivers practical information on all aspects of elder caregiving ...

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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom

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When my mother became a widow, I became a Designated Daughter--the sibling who would try to take up the empty space that had always been filled by Dad. Instead, I found my ...

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Uncertain Inheritance, An: Writers on Caring for Family

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Thirty million people today care for ailing family members in their own homes?a number that will increase dramatically over the next decade as baby boomers enter old age, as soldiers return home from war mentally and physically wounded, as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them.

Offering both companionship and guidance to the people who find themselves caring for their intimates, An Uncertain Inheritance is a collection of essays from some of the country's most accomplished writers. Poignant, honest, sometimes heartbreaking, often wry, and funny, here is a book that examines caregiving from every angle, revealing the pain, intimacy, and grace inherent in this meaningful relationship.

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Thank You for My Dignity

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They dont come with an instruction book! How many times have you heard exasperated parents say that? Author Linda Davis Grable found that those elusive instructions dont come with the elderly either. In Thank You for My Dignity, Grable shares a journey on which she accompanied her mother, a journey from an active life to the final moment of life. This journey was full of fascinating moments, as well as the heart-breaking ones. Growing old, insurmountable health problems, and short-term memory loss do not translate to a second childhood. It simply means that the person needs to live for now. The past as the rest of us remember it is suddenly gone. Each moment must be lived to the fullest, enjoyed, realized, and experiencedbefore that moment slips away, never to be recovered. But all of this is just a new chapter in the book of life, a chapter we all will encounter one day. So join this mother-daughter team on the ultimate journeythe journey to retain the essence of ones being. And you may want to drop off a copy for your children.

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Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent

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From a bestselling author and clinical psychologist comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter shepherding her father through his final years of life.

After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring ??inherited?? her father (Pop) and set off on an all-consuming, fiveyear mission to make his days as rich and comfortable as possible. This is their story, overflowing with humor, insight, and love.

In beautifully crafted vignettes, Janis brings their deepening relationship to life??both the joy and the imposition, the happiness and the heartache. Early on, she watches with relief as her father adjusts to an assisted-living facility, buoyed by a resilient spirit and a network of new friends. She and her father share the intimacy of afternoons in the park, discovering wonder in the colors of a sandwich or a rose, and solace in a smile or a reassuring touch. But as Pop??s health declines, Janis finds herself tested by daunting health-care and financial decisions, and the guilt of trying to balance her father??s growing needs against her own.

From her unique perspective as a therapist??weaving together her personal story with the confessions of her patients ??Janis explores the emotional and practical complexities of parenting a parent. In sparkling prose, she offers a language for this ordinary, extraordinary experience, helping other caregivers feel less crazy and alone. Inspiring, deeply moving, and frank, Life with Pop is an ultimately comforting meditation on a universal experience, as well as a book with profound lessons on how to grow old gracefully.

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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

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One journalist?s riveting?and surprisingly hopeful?in-the-trenches look at Alzheimer?s, the disease that claimed her mother?s life

Like many loved ones of Alzheimer?s sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person before claiming her life altogether. To deal with the pain of her loss, and to better understand the confounding aspects of living with a disease that afflicts four and a half million people every year, Kessler enlisted as a caregiver at a facility she calls Maplewood. Life inside the facility is exhausting and humbling, a microenvironment built upon the intense relationships between two groups of marginalized people: the victims of Alzheimer?s and the underpaid, overworked employees who care for them. But what surprises Kessler more than the disability and backbreaking work is the grace, humor, and unexpected humanity that are alive and well at Maplewood.

Dancing with Rose is forceful and funny, clear-eyed and compelling. An intriguing narrative about the relationships and realities of end-of-life care, it stars an endearing cast of characters who give a human face to what has always been considered a dehumanizing condition. Illuminating and beautifully written, Kessler?s immersion offers a new, optimistic view on what Alzheimer?s has to teach us.

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What If It's Not Alzheimer's?: A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia

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Updated and Revised Includes Vital Information on Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical ...

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Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff

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A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the ...

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Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

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Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, and with good reason: He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation?s physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But Twilight at Monticello is entirely new: an unprecedented look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years?from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president until his death in 1826?that will change the way readers think about this American icon. Basing his narrative on new research and documents culled from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Historical Society, and other special collections, Alan Pell Crawford paints an authoritative, deeply moving portrait of the private Jefferson?the first original depiction of the man in more than a generation.

Though physical illness and family troubles, Jefferson remained a viable political force, receiving dignitaries and corresponding with close friends, including John Adams and other heroes from the Revolution; helping his neighbor James Madison during his presidency; and establishing the University of Virginia. It was also during these years that Jefferson?s idealism would be most severely, and heartbreakingly, tested.

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Beginning Anew: Reflections for Retired People (Reflections for the Family)

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"Beginning Anew: Reflections for Retired People" is filled with practical suggestions for retirees on what to do with their newfound freedom and how to avoid the pitfalls of retirement. It contains over 100 single-page reflections for people who are retired or about to retire. Individual reflections focus on discovering meaningful activities, maintaining friendships, developing a prayer life, setting priorities, dealing with illness and disability, enjoying leisure time, letting go of career or employment concerns, and many other pertinent topics.

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