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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... weeks . Time was running out . Using a yellow legal pad , I wrote a detailed explanation of what the doc- tor wanted ... week to find another skilled nursing facility . I argued in vain for more time . I begged . My long - distance pleas ...
... week , fifty - two weeks a year to bring gro- ceries or take them to church . Until I moved back to Texas , I thought doing my family duty meant jetting in for the occasional weekend . For thirty years , my visits were more like ...
... Week by week , as I got to know the staff and the residents , and their families , they became more human and so did I. Once I jettisoned fear and judgments , the environment became less disturb- ing and the residents less intimidating ...
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