Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent : A Guide for Stressed-Out Children
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038079750X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
How to deal with an impaired parent who refuses to stop driving. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including: How to tell your parent he or she cannot live with you. While it's rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Do You Have An Aging Parent Who --Blames you for everything that goes wrong?Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?Is hostile, negative and critical?Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. How to asses the risk factors in deciding whether a parent is still able to live alone.. Though there's no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one. How
At last--the book I've been searching for! A Customer An enormous "thank you" to the authors. This book reads like they were running a video camera on my life. Finally, helpful, experienced, =sane= commentary for those of us who struggle with difficult aging parents. This book addresses an important family issue that is usually ignored by other books on aging and caregiving. I'm ordering three more copies for relatives and friends.. "This book was a lifesaver" according to Lorac. Five years ago, I was struggling with the gut-wrenching dilemma of how to care for my widowed mother, who lived 5 hours from me and vacillated between smothering love and unmitigated rage. Her physical, financial and emotional deterioration and over dependence on me to be her savior were crippling.Our relationship had always been rocky, but, as long as she was able to live independently, I was able to do the same. When she lost her ability to drive and was living alone in a rural area, I plunged into a seemi. Leedaphanie said Some good ideas for structuring conversations. They pegged the difficult older parent and the up front survey was helpful. Some good ideas for structuring conversations. A lot of reference to the use of outside help for both the parent and child but short on aide if the family is not of financial means.
They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. This is their first book. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. This is their first book.Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland
. This is their first book.Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. This is their first book. This is their first book.Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. About the Author Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. They created a nationwide network of similar