Parenting Your Parents (eBook)

Straight Talk About Aging in the Family

Bart J. Mindszenthy, Michael Gordon (Autoren)

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2013 | 3. Auflage
400 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-1063-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the last edition in 2006, there is now an increasing awareness of the complex challenges posed by the expanding aging population in North America. The third edition of Parenting Your Parents shows that you are not alone and offers crucial advice to help you along this difficult but rewarding journey.

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This latest, enhanced and updated edition will help guide the thinking of those challenged with aging in the family. Since the last edition in 2006, much has happened in the field of eldercare. There is now an increasing awareness of the complex challenges posed by the expanding aging population in North America. When our parents reach a certain age and have difficulty coping, we find ourselves wondering how to provide them with the kind of love, care, support, and attention they need, just as they have done for us all our lives.The third edition of Parenting Your Parents shows, through 24 case studies and the personal experiences of the authors, that you are not alone and offers crucial advice to help you along this difficult but rewarding journey. It also offers a new Vulnerability Index to measure what level of need your parents may have right now, as well as a financial planning section and resource directory.

Autor

Bart J. Mindszenthy, APR, FCPRS, LM, has been a family caregiver and eldercare advocate since 2002 with five books on the subject, including The Family Eldercare Workbook Planner. He is also a partner in a communications and training firm operating in Canada and the U.S. He lives in Toronto. Michael Gordon, MD, MSC, and FRCPC, is professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, head of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine at Toronto's Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, and author of Late Stage Dementia and Moments that Matter. He lives in Toronto.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2013
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 1 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: aging and social issues • aging, eldercare, geriatrics, long-term planning, nursing home placement, advance care planning , dementia, late onset depression , late-life sexuality , elder travel, end-of-life decisions, medical decision-making in the elderly, social workers place in eldercare advice • legal conflicts and geriatric care decisions , caring , comfort care, Family eldercare , caregiving , aging loved ones, sandwich generation, assisted living , Alzheimer's, boomers and family challenges , nursing home selection, Parkinson's, sibling rivalry and aging parents • powers of attorney: general and health, health and aging parents, living wills, engaging the elderly , aging and quality of life , aging and the health care system
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-1063-0 / 1459710630
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-1063-4 / 9781459710634