A bittersweet season : caring for our aging parents and ourselves

Summary: Author Jane Gross combines crucial practical information about caring for an aging parent with her own intimate story of caring for her mother in this essential guide for anyone navigating this unfamiliar, demanding, and emotional territory.

Record details

ISBN: 030727182X
ISBN: 9780307271822
Physical Description: 350 p. ; 25 cm.
print
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The early heroic rush -- The myth of assisted living -- The vestiges of family medicine -- A job for professionals -- The best doctors money can buy -- September eleventh -- September twelfth -- The biology, sociology, and psychology of aging -- A nursing home thanksgiving -- The Make-A-Wish Foundation -- Follow the money -- Therapeutic fibs -- Cruel sorting -- As complicated as a Rubik's cube -- The time for talking -- N-O-W -- Dying days -- Orphans.