When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents, Volume 6Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2006 - 312 halaman After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jim Comer found himself an overnight "parent" at the age of 51. When he walked into his father's hospital room everyone looked to him as the "man who knew all the answers." He soon realized he didn't even know the questions. In ten years of caregiving, Comer has not only learned the questions he has lived them, and with When Roles Reverse he shares his hard-won answers. He learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father's deafness and his mother's dementia. Through it all Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor, in the process forging a deeper, more intimate relationship with his parents. With laugh-out-loud humor, Jim deals with improvisational moments for which there is no preparation: And offers personal experience and expert insight on the many issues it's absolutely essential to plan for such as: When Roles Reverse even includes "Fifty Questions that will save you Time, Money, and Tears," a special section designed to help families initiate vital communication and prepare for the crises, confusion and unexpected joys of caregiving. |
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... Austin , some two hundred miles south . When disaster strikes , friends and neighbors are a blessing but family is a necessity . I needed their support and I got it . My cousins Randy and Donna Stump were at the hospital when I arrived ...
... Austin agreed to participate . Since it was December , I asked the clergy to keep their com- ments brief . What did I want in the death notice that would be faxed that afternoon to the Austin newspaper and appear in the next day's ...
... Austin , and we were living in Ithaca , New York . My parents had lived in Austin for five years in the early eighties and liked it , and my sister had been living here for many years . So we made an agreement with my parents . We said ...
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