The gift of caring

By Marcy Cottrell Houle

Subjects: Care, Parent-Child Relations, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, Medical care, Parents, HEALTH & FITNESS, Health and hygiene, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, Aging parents, Aging, Eldercare, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS, Health Care Issues, Adult children of aging parents, Health Services for the Aged, Adult Children

Description: "In the next few years, 66 million Americans will be caring for an aging parent. "Over eighty-five" is the nation's fastest growing age group, a trend that keeps growing as ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five every day. The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal--how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, this book brings the reader into the all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it's too late"--