Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents--And Ourselves

Name: Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents--And Ourselves
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ISBN: 9780307472403

ISBN-10: 030747240X

ISBN-13: 9780307472403

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Authors: Jane Gross

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Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross inA Bittersweet SeasonAs painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them.Avoid hospitals and emergency rooms, as well as multiple relocations from home to assisted living facility to nursing home, since all can cause dramatic declines in physical and cognitive well-being among the aged.Do not accept the canard that no decent child sends a parent to a nursing home. Good nursing home care, which supports the entire family, can be vastly superior to the pretty trappings but thin…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue Finding Our Better Selves



The Early Heroic Rush



The Myth of Assisted Living



The Vestiges of Family Medicine



A Job for Professionals



The Best Doctors Money Can Buy



September Eleventh



September Twelfth



The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging



A Nursing Home Thanksgiving



The Make-A-Wish Foundation



Follow the Money



Therapeutic Fibs



Gruel Sorting



As Complicated as a Rubik's Cube



The Time for Talking



N-O-W



Dying Days



Orphans


Epilogue Lost and Found


Resources Government Sites


General Information and Research


Housing, Care Management and Other Services


Caregiving


Legal and Financial


End of Life


Advocacy


Alzheimer's Disease


Other DiseasesAging in Place


Miscellaneous


Acknowledgments


Index