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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... Hearing Aids in Heaven , I'd Rather Go to Hell While Dad's deafness does not seem to bother him , it drives me crazy . I have fought a long , losing battle to get him to use his hearing aids . In six years , he has spent $ 8,000 on ...
... hearing aid and miss your sparkling conversation , that is a legitimate choice . Don't expect to solve every problem . Sometimes the best you can do is dam- age control . 10 I'm Great in a Tornado , but Save Me. The ritual of the hearing ...
... hearing aids when he visited Mother . He greeted this news with a scowl and a grunt . For once I understood why my father didn't want his hearing amplified electronically . The hospital offered an array of unpleasant noises : buzzers ...
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