In Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents (without losing your mind) Reginato creates a compassionate and straightforward guide filled with expert tips for caring for an aging adult.
Easily accomplish important tasks:
- Assist with tracking medications to avoid errors.
- Create a safer home environment to prevent falls and accidents.
- Keep yourself in a good frame of mind to avoid burning out.
- Select the best caregiving products.
- Manage emergency room visits and avoid hospital readmissions.
- Have important conversations about medical wishes.
- Deal with a parent who resists paid help at home.
"This is a superb book-amazingly insightful and helpful. Reginato provides step-by-step instructions to help you care for seniors while also caring for yourself. As a gerontologist with years of experience, and as a daughter, she offers practical suggestions and she gives them from the heart."
-Bob Goldman, Bob Goldman Financial Planning
"Kira Reginato has compiled a short, but comprehensive guide to covering all the bases of complex family caregiving "
-Dennis McCullough, MD, Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and author of My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
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