The book that answers all the questions you hoped you'd never have to ask.

Hailed as "an excellent resource" by the Family Caregiver Alliance, How to Care for Aging Parents is an indispensable source of information and support.

Now completely revised and updated, this compassionate, comprehensive caregiver's bible tackles all the touch subjects, from how to avoid becoming your parent's "parent," to understanding what happens to the body in old age, to getting help finding, and paying for, a nursing home.

When love is not enough--and regrettably, it never is--this is the essential guide.

Help for every difficult issue:

• Knowing when to intervene
• Coping with dementia
• Caring for the caregiver
• The question of driving
• Paying for long-term care
• Sharing the care with siblings
• Caregiving from a distance
• Home care vs. a nursing home
• The hospice option

Author: Virginia Morris
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 02/11/2014
Pages: 688
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780761166764
3rd Edition


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/01/2013 pg. 15
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2014

About the Author
Morris, Virginia: -

An award-winning journalist, Virginia Morris has devoted her career to researching and writing about health care, medical research and related social and political issues for the last 25 years. She is the author of How to Care for Aging Parents, which won the Books for a Better Life Award and instantly became the best-selling book on the subject when it was first released in 1996. The most recent updated and expanded edition was published in 2014. She is also the author of Talking About Death, which came out in paperback in 2004. Virginia has been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Morning Show, Primetime, NPR, CNN, and a host of other national media. She also appeared before Congress, testifying before the bicameral Joint Economic Committee in 2007. She now lectures around the country on both subjects. She lives with her husband and two children in the New York area.