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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... took Mother to Dillard's to buy her a new comforter . She was " scan- dalized " by the prices , remembering only what things cost in her Depression - era youth . Her protests did not stop me from using her Visa card . Unlike mine , it ...
... took him to the ophthalmologist and got a new prescription for reading glasses , but he no longer showed interest in ... took her meals in a small dining room near the A - Wing nurses ' station where she could be observed easily by the ...
... took care of my mother and then she died and I took care of my father for five years . Then I took care of my aunt . ” Many in the older generation think caregiving is expected of them , no matter what it does to their health or the ...
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