Recommending Reading for September 2022
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents–and Ourselves
By: Jane Gross
The author shares some of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself. As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them. Do not accept the myth that no decent child sends a parent to a nursing home. Good nursing home care, which supports the entire family, can be vastly superior to the pretty trappings but thin staffing of assisted living or the solitude of being at home, even with round-the-clock help.
