Changing Places A Journey with My Parents into Their Old Age

Name: Changing Places A Journey with My Parents into Their Old Age
Price: 3.96 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781573228800

ISBN-10: 157322880X

ISBN-13: 9781573228800

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Judy Kramer

List price: $17.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.96

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Afternoon - Changes


Departure: Closing a Home


Moving In


Assuming Control


Setting Up an Irrevocable Trust


Medicaid: Becoming Poor and Eligible


Confinement, Contentment, and Commitment


Nurturing Creativity


Preparing for Mortality


Trading Places


Feeling My Feelings


Family Communications


Learning the Drill


Learning the Hard Way


Traveling with Family Baggage


Evening - Losses


Looking Backward and Forward


Losing Independence


Invisible Indignities


Making Choices


Losses


Innovating Around Losses


A Good Loss


Living with Her Choices


Losing Control


The Meaning of Things


A Full Plate


The Limits of Care


Trading Voice Mail


Time-sharing


Guilt and Reality


Finding Ways to Help


Getting It Right


The Last Dance


Running Out of Time


Rare Pleasure


Dad Won't Listen


Balancing Act


Showing Love


Family Albums: Buried Treasure


Night - Death


The Gift of Conversation


Preparing Together


Medical Emergencies


The Cost of Care


The Seesaw


Approaching Death


Allowing Death: The Advance Directive


Implementing Death


Sharing Death


Road Map: The Advance Directive


When the Question Is an Answer


Dawn - Grief


Caregiver Withdrawal


Surviving Death


The Gift of Remembering


Seeing Dad Again


Phone Fear


Recognizing Losses


Life's Overdraft Privileges


The Natural Order of Things


Missing Parents Differently


The Memories We Select


How We Heal


Finding the Universal in the Particular


Saying Thanks and Good-bye


Meeting Parents as Peers


Wanting to Love Them


Hard Things to Say


Morning - Survival


Legacies


Balancing the Books


Not Sharing Good News


Being with Dad Again


Feeling Grief and Relief


Closing Accounts


Releasing the Records


Speaking Without Words


The Anniversary of Mom's Death


The Legacy of Letters


Looking In and Out


Lessons


Fears, Feelings, and the Flow of Time


Conclusion