When Our Parents Need Us Most: Loving Care in the Aging Years

by David L. McKenna

Your parents are entering their senior years. How can you, as a

*help them face retirement?
*assist them in financial decision making?
*handle your own emotions while "parenting" your parent?
*cope with sickness and physical changes?
*encourage them to reflect on their spiritual lives?

Dr. McKenna speaks powerfully from his own experiences with four aging parents, two of whom lived in his home. He offers comfort and guidelines for times of transition, and explores in everyday terms the biblical meaning of caregiving.

134 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2000

About the author

Dr. David Loren McKenna (b. 1929) is Founding Chair of the Northwest Graduate School of the Ministry, Redmond, Washington. He served for 50 years in Christian higher education, including 33 years as a college, university, and seminary president. His national reputation as an educator was acclaimed when he was finalist for Secretary of Education in the Reagan cabinet. He and his wife, Janet, have four children and twelve grandchildren.