Respecting Your Limits When Caring for Aging Parents

By Vivian E. Greenberg

Book Overview

Vivian Greenberg explains how to understand and accept the limits of what we can do for our parents. With insight and skill, she offers valuable information on how to recognize unrealistic expectations how to get our siblings to share responsibilities how to cope with difficult parents. This updated and revised edition also includes advice on what role reversal really means as our parents grow older; why our own family should come first and what to do about loyalty conflicts; and how to deal with the sadness and pain that accompanies the decision to place a parent in a nursing home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787941786
• ISBN13: 9780787941789
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Caring Without Caving

For those struggling to assist their aging parents, while managing a career and family of their own, Vivian Greenberg's book is a treasure. Through her many years of real life experience, it becomes clear in these pages that Greenberg really understands the dynamics of older parents and their adult children. The author displays a balanced point of view, compassion for older adults and understanding for their children. The situations Greenberg describes are real and her advice is solid. Her advice to adult children: Don't condescend to your parents, regardless of their changing needs--but don't cave in either. You have a right to your own life, your own space, your own needs. For those who feel they are getting lost in the daily demands of elder caregiving, this book is a breath of fresh air.