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Adult children of aging parents Family relationships Aging parents Care Aging parents Care United States Aging parents Family relationships Dementia Patients Family relationships Mothers and daughters United States Oomen, Anne-Marie Parent and adult child Parent and adult child United States United StatesSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CARMindszenthy, Bart J.
Summary: "A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare. Is it time for your aging father to stop driving? How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs? Can your parents cope on their own? Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option? Millions of people are dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MINChast, Roz
Summary: "In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAST, ROZ CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem ChastFederico, Meg.
Summary: The author relates her poignant and hilariously tumultuous journey caring for her eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father who were forced to accept full-time home care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 LINButler, Katy
Summary: "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggleto allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BUTLuxenberg, Steve.
Summary: Traces the author's surprise discovery that his late mother had a sister who was sent away under mysterious circumstances and never mentioned by the family again, his efforts to research his long-lost aunt's story and whereabouts, and his struggles to understand the secrecy of her existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.875 LUXCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.875 LUXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.875 LUXMorris, Virginia
Summary: How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans--now 42 million--who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Jacobs, Barry J.
Contents: Prologue -- First days -- Defining commitments -- Utilizing support -- Handling sacrifice -- Weighing hope and acceptance, fantasy and reality -- Fostering awareness and flexibility -- Protecting intimacy -- Sustaining the spirit -- Last days -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 JACMontemarano, Nicholas
Summary: Sisters Betsy and Avery have never met, but they have both spent their lives under the scrutiny of prying cameras and tabloid journalists. Their father, David Christie, was a charismatic senator and promising presidential candidate until infidelity destroyed his campaign and his family's life. In the aftermath, Betsy grieves her broken family, while Avery struggles with growing up estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONOomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OOM1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOM
Miller, Sue
Summary: In this memoir, Sue Miller finds herself caring for her father as he slips into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. Miller brings her father, James Nichols, to life as she recounts her struggle with doctors and a disease that steals all that is meaninful from her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003