Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love

This book is a "must-read" for anyone caring for aging parents, providing a comprehensive guide on effective family caregiving in the 21st century. It offers valuable tips and insights from the author's professional experiences and her own journey as a caregiver. Readers report feeling "deeply understood" and finding the book a sane voice in a difficult world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 338 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This book is a must-read for anyone currently caring for their aging parents, those who will eventually care for their aging parents, or anyone planning on growing older. The author brings her decades of professional experiences as a psychotherapist, attorney, coach, and daughter to this book. She simultaneously chronicles her own heart-warming and touching journey as well as providing a comprehensive guide on doing effective family caregiving in the 21st century. Many report feeling "deeply understood" reading this book as they resonated with the candid revelations of the author's inner struggles. Others find hers "a sane voice in a difficult world." You will not be disappointed with reading the dilemmas, insights, and decisions told in "My Story," as you see what can be learned from this expert's mistakes as well as her successes.

Jane Wolf Frances offers many valuable tips and insights as she guides you from the beginning of the POPcycle, as she's termed it, all the way to the end of her own parents' lives. Whether you're one of the 75 million Americans who are lucky enough to be "Parenting Our Parents," or you're still struggling with overwhelm and confusion, you'll need to know what's being offered here. You will learn how you can:
1. Read the signs your parents need help.
2. Have "the talk" with your folks.
3. Make crucial decisions to get the maximum benefits available.
4. Enroll more family to be on the team.
5. Balance the elements in the new life you're taking on as Parenting Our Parents will change your life.
6. Transform the remarkable challenges of role reversals - legal, emotional, practical, residential - into a true journey of love.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 212 x 142 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538174180