How to Care for Aging Parents: A One-Stop Resource for All Your Medical, Financial, Housing, and Emotional Issues

Morris's authoritative guide on caring for aging parents, now in its third edition, is a must-read for anyone who wants to prepare for emotionally strenuous challenge head on. She thoroughly addresses the subject, covering most topics imaginable from standards such as exercise and healthy diet to uncomfortable ones such as STDs, Alzheimer's, and delusions and hallucinations. The vast amounts of information are succinctly communicated often using visual aids as inset boxes, checklists, at-a-glance comparison charts, and blocked quotes from a variety players involved in the process with reassuring personal testimonies. Her frank approach manages to be both compassionate and direct making the most awkward or devastating topics manageable, so that by the time readers reach discussions about death, they are able to absorb the information and confront the difficult steps that follow. She also includes a lengthy summary of useful organizations at the end, as well as a "Caregiver's Organizer" with worksheets, checklists and charts to make an organized participant out of the most hapless caregiver.%C2%A0(Feb.)