Respecting Your Limits When Caring for Aging Parents - Softcover

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VIVIAN E. GREENBERG has a private practice in Pennington, New Jersey, and is a featured columnist in Answers, a magazine for adults with aging parents. She conducts workshops and lectures throughout the country on the stresses of caregiving and the relationship problems between middle-aged adults and their elderly parents.

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Practical and compassionate advice on how to provide appropriate care for our aging parents without ruining our lives.

In this wise and beautifully written book, Vivian Greenberg explains how to understand and accept the limits of what we can do for our parents. With insight and skill, she offers valuable information on

• how to recognize unrealistic expectations
  
• how to get our siblings to share responsibilities
  
• how to cope with difficult parents

This updated and revised edition of Respecting Your Limits When Caring For Aging Parents also includes advice on what role reversal really means as our parents grow older; why our own family should come first and what to do about loyalty conflicts; and how to deal with the sadness and pain that accompanies the decision to place a parent in a nursing home.

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Practical and compassionate advice on how to provide appropriate care for our aging parents without ruining our lives.In this wise and beautifully written book, Vivian Greenberg explains how to understand and accept the limits of what we can do for our parents. With insight and skill, she offers valuable information on

• how to recognize unrealistic expectations
• how to get our siblings to share responsibilities
• how to cope with difficult parents