Raising an Aging Parent: Guidelines for Families in the Second Half of Life

by Ken Druck

Raising an Aging Parent is about learning how to build stronger, kinder, more compassionate, and deeply loving families in the second half of life.The four cornerstones of Raising an Aging Parent are strengthening the bonds between adult children and their aging parents, forging collaborative relationships between siblings, maintaining self-care while caregiving, and establishing a new norm for the second half of life that promotes individual, family, community, generational and global wellbeing.

In Raising an Aging Parent, readers will

How to support/help aging parents as they face the changes, challenges and opportunities of getting olderWhat your parents would tell you, if only they couldHow to diffuse sibling rivalries and promote open communicationDos and don'ts of making tough calls and difficult decisionsWhat to do when aging parents resist changeThe Six Honorings for moving forward after a parent diesSteps for leaving a legacy of loveKen Druck defines the playing field of daunting challenges and fertile opportunities that exist between aging parents and their adult children. Readers create a custom master plan for their family with a host of best practices to guide them.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2019