Caring for the Parents Who Cared for You: What to Do When an Aging Parent Needs You - Hardcover

Scileppi, Kenneth P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155972367X ISBN 13: 9781559723671

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Offers advice on how to care for an aging parent, including how to calm a nervous parent handling distrust, and what questions to ask a doctor in order to prevent tragic mistakes

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth P. Scileppi, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University College and an attending physician at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

From Booklist:

As medical advances continue to prolong human life, more adults in the prime of life are having to care for their parents as well as their children. Scileppi offers counsel on such matters as when to start worrying about parents' ability to continue living on their own, and then he simply, succinctly addresses specific health concerns of the elderly: falling, nutrition, incontinence, etc. In the final chapter, he deals sensibly and sensitively with the hardest problem of all, "The Right Time to Let Go." This exemplarily organized, highly readable resource for the "sandwich generation" may help many a family more fully enjoy one another at all stages of their lives. Mike Tribby

About this edition

• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 155972367X
• ISBN 13: 9781559723671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242