In" Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents (without losing your mind") Reginato creates a compassionate and straightforward guide filled with expert tips for adult children of aging parents.
Easily accomplish important tasks:
. Assist with tracking medications to avoid errors.
. Create a safer home environment to prevent falls and accidents.
. Keep yourself in a good frame of mind to avoid burning out.
. Select the best caregiving products.
. Manage emergency room visits and avoid hospital readmissions.
. Have important conversations about medical wishes.
. Deal with a parent who resists paid help at home.
"This is a superb book-amazingly insightful and helpful. Reginato provides step-by-step instructions to help you care for seniors while also caring for yourself. As a gerontologist with years of experience, and as a daughter, she offers practical suggestions and she gives them from the heart."
-Bob Goldman, Bob Goldman Financial Planning
"Kira Reginato has compiled a short, but comprehensive guide to covering all the bases of complex family caregiving!"
-Dennis McCullough, MD, Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and author of "My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones ""