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EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
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

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 19 reviews)

God Bless My Grandmother by VALERIE R VALICENTO

5 Stars
June 03, 2009
What do you do with such a daunting prospect? I had to take care of my aging Grandmother on my own and I had no one to turn to. This is the one place that I found solid advice.

Nice Book by N. Marple

5 Stars
July 26, 2008
This book has given me some help on things to think about with my aging parents.

Elder Abuse Colored by Law: Professional Guardianship by Christina Florida (Florida)

5 Stars
September 29, 2004
Read "The Retirement Nightmare" by Dr. Diane Armstrong. Get the real truth about the fraud and abuse of the elderly and not so elderly. To avoid a professional guardianship, should be of paramount importance. Reports of guardians stealing from their wards' bank accounts and other wise abusing guardianship powers are surfacing with disturbing regularity. 'This problem is going to get bigger and bigger,' says E. Bentley Lipscomb, AARP's Florida state director and a former state secretary of elder affairs. - GUARDIANS DRAWING INCREASED SCRUTINY, AARP Bulletin.

Comprehensive Help for Those Who Care for Aging Parents by Phyllis Staff (Dallas, Texas USA)

5 Stars
May 31, 2004
Virginia Morris nails it with this comprehensive volume. She addresses every issue I've faced as a caregiver and more. Her sensitivity and caring shine through every page, and she's packed the book with useful information.

If you're caring for aging parents, start here. "How to Care for Aging Parents" stands head and shoulders above other general caregiving books.

Phyllis Staff, Ph.D.
author, "How to Find Great Senior Housing"
and
"128 Ways to Prevent Alzheimer's and Other Dementias"

EXCELLENT resource!

5 Stars
July 26, 2003
This book is exceptional. The author includes all specifics needed to apply the valuable information provided throughout the book...including phone numbers and addresses. Not only did the book help my husband and I prepare to care for our own parents, reading it has helped us prepare for our own aging process. The information will make things as easy as possible for our single child when we become the "Aging Parents". This book is a must have. I bought one for each of my siblings and also copies for good friends who are also caring for elderly parents.

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