The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers - Looking after Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent

List of contents

Prologue
1. First Days
2. Defining Commitments
3. Utilizing Support
4. Handling Sacrifice
5. Weighing Hope and Acceptance, Fantasy and Reality
6. Fostering Awareness and Flexibility
7. Protecting Intimacy
8. Sustaining the Spirit
9. Last Days
Epilogue: Caregiving's Aftermath
Resources

About the author

Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD, works with couples and families coping with serious health problems. He has faculty appointments at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Widener University, and is the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He is also a widely published journalist who has written extensively for The Village Voice and other publications. Currently, he writes an advice column for Take Care!, the quarterly newsletter of the National Family Caregivers Association and edits the In Sickness & Health column for the journal Families, Systems & Health. He lives with his wife and their two children in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Summary

Through an account of two sisters and their ailing mother, this book helps family members navigate tough decisions and make the most of their time together as they care for an aging parent. It urges readers to be honest about the level of commitment they make and emphasizes the need for communication with each other and their aging parent.

Product details

• Authors: Barry J. Jacobs, Jacobs Barry J.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9781572307292
• ISBN: 978-1-57230-729-2
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Sociology: family & relationships, Care of the elderly, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships