Description

The best resource to help you care for your aging parent!

This comforting and poignant guide bridges the gap between elderly parents and the adult children who care for them. Covering health, finances, living arrangements, communication, and emotional struggles, Caring for Your Aging Parents offers caring, professional advice for the increasingly difficult decisions that caregivers face, including:

• Making the right choice between home care and assisted living
• Coping with memory-loss and dementia
• Expressing care and concern without sending mixed messages
• Counteracting negative behavior
• Encouraging other family members to help with caregiving
• Managing stress and taking care of yourself

With a wealth of resources and reassuring answers, Caring for Your Aging Parents helps caregivers foster a loving, cooperative relationship with their parents in this new chapter of their life and realize that even during this difficult transition, they are not alone.

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"It's a terrific book." — Newsday

"Useful, easy to read, and most informative." — Dr. Daniel Thursz, president, National Council of the Aging

"Full of information..." — Washington Post

"One of the best books on eldercare." — Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave

About the Author

Raeann Berman is a Knight Fellow at the University of Maryland College of Journalism.

Bernard Shulman, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University School of Medicine and a faculty member of the Alfred Adler Institute with more than 50 years experience as a psychiatrist.