The essential guide to caring for aging parents
Rhodes, Linda M. Colvin2012
Book
An expert in the field provides guidance for stressed-out caregivers of aging parents, including information on providing primary care, utilizing adult day care, and other local services and transitioning them to assisted living facilities.
Main title:
The essential guide to caring for aging parents / by Linda Rhodes.
Author:
Imprint:
New York, NY : Alpha, c2012.
Collation:
xvi, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A wise and practical guide to navigating the complex world of family elder care"--Cover.Includes index.
Contents:
Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Problem Solving Amid Confusion -- 1.What's Really Wrong with My Parent? -- Signs That Something Is Amiss -- Aging's Big Four -- Heart Attacks -- Brain Attacks -- Cancer -- Alzheimer's and Other Dementias -- Getting a Heads-Up: Geriatric Assessments -- Researching Medical Conditions -- 2.Defining Problems: Considering All Viewpoints -- Appreciating Your Parents' Perspective -- Deciphering What's Really Going On -- Identifying Your Motivations and Emotional Triggers -- Defining the Problem -- 3.Developing a Caregiver Game Plan -- Identifying Caregiving Needs and Tasks -- What's the Goal? -- Set Your Criteria for Your Solutions -- Sizing Up Your Life and Resources -- Creating Solutions -- Plan B -- 4.Getting Your Caregiving Plan Organized -- Doing the Advance Work -- Setting Up a Portfolio -- Long-Distance Caregivers---More Advance Work -- Delegating Tasks and Family Meetings -- Holding a Family Meeting -- Meeting Preliminaries --
ISBN:
9781615641918 (pbk)1615641912 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.6
LC class:
HQ1063.6
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
209226
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | -Society | SOCIETY 362.6 RHOD | Available |