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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... father's health for five years . One day I stopped him in the lobby and let him know how concerned I was about Dad's weight loss and precarious mental state . " Jim , I want to be frank with you . Your father is beginning to go down ...
... father's life . I gave him two typewritten pages about Dad , along with his obituary My minister , Rev. Jim Rigby , had met my father but did not know him well . I wanted him to understand and appreciate the person he was going to ...
... father , Bill , read my favorite passage from Paul that ends with the affirmation , " Nothing can separate us from the love of God . " Finally , I added a personal perspective in my tribute and talked about the gifts my father had given ...
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