Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.
Parenting Your Parents: Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare.
Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?
How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs?
Can your parents cope on their own?
Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option?
Millions of people are dealing with aging parents and are stunned by the complexities and demands of their care. As demographics change and societies adapt, that caring — that parenting — isn’t getting any simpler. In the fourth edition of this eldercare classic, advocate Bart J. Mindszenthy and geriatrician Dr. Michael Gordon present twenty-four case studies of families working through the eldercare puzzle. With new scenarios, such as legalized marijuana and medical assistance in dying, this revised and updated edition makes the case for good planning, family unity, and being aware of your loved ones’ health.
With the help of Gordon and Mindszenthy’s expert advice, care providers are able to shed guilt and worry and become confident that they have done all they can to make their parents’ latter years as fulfilling and comfortable as possible.
1114215060
Parenting Your Parents: Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare.
Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?
How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs?
Can your parents cope on their own?
Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option?
Millions of people are dealing with aging parents and are stunned by the complexities and demands of their care. As demographics change and societies adapt, that caring — that parenting — isn’t getting any simpler. In the fourth edition of this eldercare classic, advocate Bart J. Mindszenthy and geriatrician Dr. Michael Gordon present twenty-four case studies of families working through the eldercare puzzle. With new scenarios, such as legalized marijuana and medical assistance in dying, this revised and updated edition makes the case for good planning, family unity, and being aware of your loved ones’ health.
With the help of Gordon and Mindszenthy’s expert advice, care providers are able to shed guilt and worry and become confident that they have done all they can to make their parents’ latter years as fulfilling and comfortable as possible.
24.99
In Stock
51
Parenting Your Parents: Straight Talk About Aging in the Family
A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare.
Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?
How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs?
Can your parents cope on their own?
Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option?
Millions of people are dealing with aging parents and are stunned by the complexities and demands of their care. As demographics change and societies adapt, that caring — that parenting — isn’t getting any simpler. In the fourth edition of this eldercare classic, advocate Bart J. Mindszenthy and geriatrician Dr. Michael Gordon present twenty-four case studies of families working through the eldercare puzzle. With new scenarios, such as legalized marijuana and medical assistance in dying, this revised and updated edition makes the case for good planning, family unity, and being aware of your loved ones’ health.
With the help of Gordon and Mindszenthy’s expert advice, care providers are able to shed guilt and worry and become confident that they have done all they can to make their parents’ latter years as fulfilling and comfortable as possible.
Bart J. Mindszenthy is an eldercare advocate and author of several books about aging in the family. A retired communications executive, Bart lives in Toronto.
Dr. Michael Gordon was Canada’s first Royal College geriatrician and was vice president of medical services at Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences. He is a University of Toronto emeritus professor of medicine and lives in Toronto.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dr. Paula Rochon
Introduction: The Case for the Cause — Caring for Aging Loved Ones Is a Major North American Social Issue and Challenge
Family Case Studies
1. Control: Laying on the Guilt Trip
2. Surgery: Weighing the Odds
3. Independence: Helping Parents Live Their Lives
4. Breaking the Mould: The Rebellious Grandmother
5. Tapping the Human Spirit: It Is Never Too Late to Create
6. Substance Abuse: Drinking All Day Keeps Reality Away
7. Sexuality, Romance, and the Family: When Children Worry About Their Parents
8. Culture Clash: Pitting Values Against Needs
9. The Conflicted Single Child: A Confusing Battle of Priorities
10. The Stroke: Sudden Challenges and Changes
11. Dementia and Depression: Reading the Signs
12. Advancing Dementia: When Life Gets More Difficult
13. Technology: Opening New Avenues of Care Management
14. Scams: Seniors Beware
15. Navigating the Health Care System: Knowing How to Get the Help You Need
16. We’re on Our Own: How to Plan for the Future
17. Decision Time: Planning for the Inevitable
18. When Love and the Law Conflict: Who’s Right, Who Has the Right?
19. End of Life: Caring and Sharing
20. Cannabis Concerns: Is Marijuana Only for the Young?
21. The New World of MAID: Moral and Personal Dilemma
22. The Difficulties of Decision-Making: Deciding What Treatments Make the Most Sense
23. Moving On: Living Life without a Loved One
24. Being Sandwiched: Parenting Your Parents and Your Children
Our Own Experiences
A Time of Trauma Sets the Stage for Years of Hurt, Hope, and Endings by Bart Mindszenthy
More than the Birds and the Bees: Having “the Conversation” with Your Parent by Dr. Michael Gordon
Roz and Max by Dr. Michael Gordon
Now It’s My Turn: When Parenting Your Parents Reaches the Next Cycle by Dr. Michael Gordon
Appendix: Vulnerability Index — How Are Your Parents Right Now?
"Bart Mindszenthry and Dr. Michael Gordon are to be commended on writing an accessible and extremely useful book that helps parents and their adults children through a stressful time of life for everyone concerned."
"... is a most welcome reference book for adult children of elderly parents who are seeking advice from the experts into whose hands they see their parents' health care ever-increasingly entrusted ... I highly recommend Parenting Your Parent for adult children dealing with elderly parents and for their own children who will surely face the challenges their parents are facing now."
