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BOOK
SHELF ~ Elder Care
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Baby Boomer's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
Bart Astor
The dilemma of caring for aging parents
is growing in importance, especially as a greater proportion
of the population nears the age of 50. This thoughtfully
developed guide is packed with practical information on
facing legal issues, selecting long term care, determining
the onset of conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer's,
and more.
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 How
to Care for Your Aging Parents...
and Still Have a Life of Your Own!
J. Michael Dolan
This "reader-friendly" and insightful
book captures the heartfelt emotion of what it's like
to be an adult child of aging parents, and offers countless
invaluable tips on how to take optimum care of them, and
still maintain a personal life of your own.
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 Caring
for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents
How to Help, How to Survive
Claire Berman
For individuals who are involved in caring
for aging parents, and for those who see caretaking in
their future, this helpful, compassionate guide centers
on the emotional stresses and needs of caregivers, while
addressing all the practical issues they are likely to
confront. From her own experience and that of dozens of
other caring adult childrenas well as through interviews
with specialists in the geriatric fieldauthor Claire Berman
discusses the wide range of emotions that can accompany
caregiving.
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 Gifts
from the Heart
Meditations on Caring for Aging Parents
Bonni Goldberg, Geo Kendall
(Contributor)
Although caring for an elderly parent is one of the most
difficult challenges a person can face, it can also deepen
an adult child's respect for the parent and understanding
for the role of caregiver. Gifts from the Heart: Meditations
on Caring for Aging Parents is the caregiver's companion,
a sympathetic guide to the spiritual aspects of an often
demanding and exhausting situation.
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 The
Aging Parent Handbook
Virginia Schomp
A helpful reference for adults caring for
their elderly and infirm parents offers practical, common-sense
advice for caregivers on such issues as housing and health-care
options, financing alternatives, legal concerns, common
illnesses and ailments, and available agencies and other
resources.
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 How
to Care for Your Parents
A Practical Guide to Eldercare
Nora Jean Levin
A time-saving guide to help families successfully
map and navigate the unfamiliar terrain of eldercare,
this unique handbook provides simple decisions-making
tools so grown children can help their parents take charge
of their long-term health, welfare, and housing needs.
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 As
Parents Age
A Psychological and Practical Guide
Joseph A. Ilardo
As boomers turn 50, their parents, if living,
are turning 70, 80, even 90. So this informative guide
to many of the biological, psychological, economic, medical,
legal, and personal issues involved in caring for older
parents (or friends) is timely and enlightening. Ilardo,
a licensed psychotherapist and social worker, encountered
some of the problems he discusses in assisting his own
parents (and parents-in-law); he now directs two programs
that help adult children ease their parents' later years.
He covers the biological and psychological effects of
aging, the impact of these changes on the family and on
adult children's attitudes, steps children can take to
allow parents to stay at home as long as possible, issues
to be considered if a parent can no longer live at home,
critical end-of-life decisions, and dealing with an elderly
parent's death. Full of useful charts and checklists,
surveys and summaries, the book closes with a "Selected
Resources" list and glossary. Appropriate for all
libraries. Mary Carroll
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all synopses, reviews and excerpts
are courtesy of amazon.com
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