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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means. Barb and John Frost are testy and bored with each other after fifty years of marriage. At least they have their daughters- Barb's favorite, Juliet; and John's darling, Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the challenges the author faced working and caring for her own parents, readers will learn how they, too, can navigate caregiving while working. There are plenty of books about managing careers and children but little advice about balancing careers and parents--along with children, marriages, and friendships. Provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers.
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Detailing Comer's experiences after his parents suffered major illnesses, When Roles Reverse merges Comer's story with practical advice to create a guide for anyone faced with caring for aging parents. When Roles Reverse helps the reader make sound decisions regarding Medicaid, Medicare, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, hospice, and much more, and it provides a state-by-state resource list"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother, who is convinced she is dying, entreats her to come "home." Trips back, traumas triggered, identity in crisis, equanimity gained--this quasi-comic, concentrated journey engages...
Author
Publisher
Alpha
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Somebody to love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, a family member stole the money Hunt Knox had saved for college, while three of his siblings and his father hid the truth and told him to get over it. Betrayed by their lies and thievery, Hunt joined the army and wound up flying Apache helicopters in Iraq. Now, he's a chopper pilot for an oil company in Houston, Texas, his father has been dead for six years, and he's finally returning home to Blessings at his mother's dying request....
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a familyand of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parentsher exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive...
Author
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans - now 42 million - who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a whole new chapter on fraud; details on the latest "aging...
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For as long as Elizabeth can remember, she has watched her father trail after her mother, kissing her multiple times a day and holding her hand. She watched her mother smooth the lines in her father's face and pay attention to his every move, even when she was desperate for some time to herself. When her parents began to age, Elizabeth and her siblings are placed in the difficult position of taking over more and more supportive roles and tasks. They...
20) Dunbar
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A modern reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear follows the experiences of a man who in the wake of an orchestrated public mental breakdown is sent to a Switzerland sanatorium by the daughters who would seize his fortune, a plot he resolves to foil with the assistance of a colorful sidekick.
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