What Do You Do When Your Parents Live Forever? - A Practical Guide to Caring for the Elderly

Life expectancy is going up. Our parents are increasingly likely to be living into their eighties and nineties. Many find themselves in the position of caring for their parents when they are already retired themselves, or not in good health, or still have children to support financially. Do you feel your parents are a burden? Do they feel that? How do we cope with the huge costs of geriatric care? How do we manage this conflicting tangle of interests? This is a practical book that looks at the range of alternatives and provides realistic solutions. It also recognizes the negative and ambivalent feelings that plague families on all sides. Extreme old age is not easy. We need to help our parents through the difficulties they inevitably face during their final years, and balance those needs with equally pressing ones elsewhere. Dan and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok here provide a succinct overview of the problems and answers for all with elderly parents.

About the author

By Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok

Product details

• Authors: Daniel C Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Cohn–sherbok
• Publisher: Obooks
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2007
• EAN: 9781846940286
• ISBN: 978-1-84694-028-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 214 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Grandparenting, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, SELF-HELP / Aging, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Home nursing & caring, Intergenerational Relationships, Home nursing and caring, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Coping with old age, Coping with / advice about ageing