They're Your Parents, Too!
How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy
New York : Bantam Books, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvi, 286 pages ; 25 cm
Explores the challenging transition faced by siblings who become their parents' caregivers, offering advice on how to cooperate productively in the face of emotional upheavals, differing opinions, and conflicting responsibilities.
Contents:
My uneasy journey into the twilight -- Confronting a new family passage. The last transition of our first family ; Acknowledging our parents' aging -- Return to the house of childhood : adapting old roles and relationships, confronting old conflicts. Who's taking care of mom? : adapting roles and relationships to take on parent care ; Dad still loves you more : revived rivalries, chances for resolution ; "We weren't your Norman Rockwell family" : holding the ideal up to reality ; Who put you in charge? :adjusting to new decision makers -- Slipping away : making peace with change and loss. Here yet not here : the dynamics of dementia ; Gathering at the deathbed : decisions, acceptance, forgiveness, loss -- Reinventing the family for our generation : sharing stories, passing on legacies. Mourning and moving on : alone and together ; Inheritance : what our parents have left us, what we carry away ; The sibling generation : sustaining the family connection into the future.
ISBN:
9780553806991
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
FAMILY Rus | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/28/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-278) and index.