Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You

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Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent Timely guidance for the challenges Encouragement for the journeyYou had plans for this time in your life, but now a parent needs care. Its a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth. Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with Gods grace and guidance. And it alerts you to the difficult issues you may face, such as: Legal and financial decisions How much care will be needed and when Evaluating different living options Depression, dementia, and Alzheimers disease Caring for a parent who has mistreated you Accepting and planning for deathMost important, this book helps you embrace caregiving as a spiritual journey that will deepen your faith and strengthen your character. It not only opens your eyes to the realities of caregiving; it also teaches you how to allow God to change your life for the better.

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Terry Hargrave (Ph.D) is nationally recognized for his pioneering work with aging and intergenerational families. He is president of Amarillo Family Institute, Inc., where he and his wife maintain a therapy practice and is a professor of counseling at West Texas A&M University. Terry and his wife, Sharon, have two children and are primary caregivers for Sharon's mother.