Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents: (without losing your mind)

In Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents (without losing your mind) Reginato creates a compassionate and straightforward guide filled with expert tips for adult children of aging parents. Easily accomplish important tasks: · Assist with tracking medications to avoid errors. · Create a safer home environment to prevent falls and accidents. · Keep yourself in a good frame of mind to avoid burning out. · Select the best caregiving products. · Manage emergency room visits and avoid hospital readmissions. · Have important conversations about medical wishes. · Deal with a parent who resists paid help at home. “This is a superb book—amazingly insightful and helpful. Reginato provides step-by-step instructions to help you care for seniors while also caring for yourself. As a gerontologist with years of experience, and as a daughter, she offers practical suggestions and she gives them from the heart.” —Bob Goldman, Bob Goldman Financial Planning "Kira Reginato has compiled a short, but comprehensive guide to covering all the bases of complex family caregiving!” —Dennis McCullough, MD, Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and author of My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones