Caring for Your Aging Parents: An Emotional Guide to Nurturing Your Loved Ones while Taking Care of Yourself

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Covering health, finances, living arrangements, communication and emotional struggles, "Caring for Your Aging Parents" offers caring, professional advice for the increasingly difficult decisions that caregivers face, including: making the right choice between home care and assisted living; coping with memory-loss and dementia; expressing care and concern without sending mixed messages; counteracting negative behavior; encouraging other family members to help with caregiving; and, managing stress and taking care of yourself. With a wealth of resources and reassuring answers, "Caring for Your Aging Parent" helps caregivers foster a loving, cooperative relationship with their parents in this new chapter of life.

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Bernard Shulman, MD (Chicago) is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University School of Medicine and a faculty member of the Alfred Adler Institute with more than 50 years experience as a psychiatrist. Raeann Berman (Chicago) is a Knight Fellow at the University of Maryland College of Journalism.