Helping Your Aging Parent -- A Step-by-Step Guide

Here you'll find a step-by step approach to helping your parent, from when you can tell that your help is needed to how to get in and really help. The book takes a proactive approach and is filled with checklists, evaluation sheets, and forms that you can printout from the CD-ROM enclosed and take with you as you go. Covers figuring out if your help is really needed, to the doctor visit, to the hospital, to dementia, to legal protection, to nursing homes and finally hospice care and planning a funeral. Find out more

Caregiver's Handbook -- A Guide & Resource for the Sandwich Generation

If you feel as though you are trying to provide your best between your career, your aging parent, and your family -- welcome to the sandwich generation! This book will give you amazing insights and little-known sources of help to turn to. Originally created for the San Diego area, it's filled with checklists, forms and information that can be of great help to anyone feeling the squeeze of the sandwich generation. Find out more.

Choose the Right Long-Term Care

Before you run out and place your parent in an expensive nursing home you should look at the options available. Nursing homes make very expensive retirement homes. If you're parent doesn't need full-time nursing care there may be better, and less expensive options available. This book covers those options.
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Elder Rage or Take My Father!
A riveting, often humorous, non-fiction novel that chronicles televison executive Jacqueline Marcell's trials and tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. Also an extensive self-help guide with valuable resources and solutions for effective management, medically and behaviorally, of challenging elders who resist care. Elder Rage is also an extensive self-help book with answers to difficult "how to" questions like: getting obstinate elders to give up driving, accept a caregiver, see a different doctor, go to day care, move to a new residence--and includes a wealth of valuable resources, websites and recommended reading. Find out more.

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