Parenting Our Parents - Transforming the Challenge Into a Journey of Love

More than ever, people are living longer, and adult children are thrust into the role of parent to their own parents. This work provides new tools and positivity for the 75 million Americans struggling with how to respond to the practical and emotional challenges of suddenly being in charge of aging or ailing parents.

List of contents

Prologue: Why I Wrote This Book

1 Finding Out Our Parents Need Someone to Help Them

2 Choosing POP-or Not

3 Entering POP in the Middle of a Crisis

4 Learning More Than We Wanted to Know: Our Parents' Financial, Health, Legal, Spiritual, and Other

Issues

5 Doing and Undoing Paperwork: Making Our Parents Safer and Part of the Twenty-First Century

6 Facing Down the Life-and-Death Mission of POP-Theirs and Yours

7 Discovering Our Parents May Need to Leave Home

8 Finding the Best Fit for Our Parents' New Home

9 Dealing with All Our Parents' Stuff

10 Settling Our Parents into Their New Lives

11 Trying to Make a Permanent POPlan: Do You Want to See God Laugh?

12 Expecting the Unexpected When We're Doing POP

13 Turning POP into Our Giant Do-Over: Forgiveness, Compassion, and Gratitude Fill the Space

14 Waiting as Our Parents Become Frailer, Weaker, Smaller, and Maybe Worse

15 Doing the Only Thing Left: Comfort-Filling Your Parents

16 Letting Go of the Beloved Parents We've Parented

17 When POP Is Over and We Need to Launch Our New Lives

Epilogue: Where Do We All Go from Here?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Suggested Reading

Index

About the Author

About the author

By Jane Wolf Frances

Product details

• Authors: Jane Wolf Frances
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781538174180
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7418-0
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, SELF-HELP / Aging, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity, Family & relationships, Advice on parenting, Parenting: advice & issues, Care of the elderly, Age groups: the elderly, Family & relationships: advice & issues, Coping with ageing, Coping with old age