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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... Texas with his wife and son by his side . John was born in Ennis , Texas on March 1 , 1910 and graduated from Gatesville High School in 1927. He attended Trinity University in Waxahachie , Texas and transferred When his crew arrived in ...
... Texas Attorney General's Office . In 1991 , Governor Ann Richards appointed him Citizen Trustee to investigate Texas nursing homes . David : In 1978 , I became Chief of the Consumer Division in the Attorney General's office . Soon after ...
... Texas Assurance Care , Inc. , 241 Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services , 188 Texas Department of Human Services , 207 Texas Department on Aging , 206 Thomas , Larry , 243-244 transportation Area Agencies on Aging and , 263 ...
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