Caring for Our Aging Parents: Lessons in Love, Loss and Letting Go - Softcover

Howe, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619708353 ISBN 13: 9781619708358

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

In Caring for Our Aging Parents, Michele Howe provides
practical and necessary guidance to help readers navigate the
uncertain and emotional territory of caring for elderly parents.
This book addresses the mental and emotional aspects of
growing older, and offers sound biblical advice on how to care
for your loved ones with positivity and respect.

Caring for Our Aging Parents will guide adult individuals who are
facing the obvious and subtle changes that take place as their
parents age. It addresses a variety of mental, emotional, physical,
and spiritual areas of decline. Readers will learn how to deal more
effectively with their own emotional responses to these ever altering
shifts in their parents personalities with good grace and by
utilizing sound biblical principles.

This resource offers real life stories of individuals who have found
positive and life-affirming methods to communicating respectfully
and lovingly to their aged parents. Readers will also be heartened
to find practical suggestions for mending broken relationships and
gaining new ground with their parents, even when their past has
been checkered by pain and difficulty.

Chapters Include: They re My Parents Too, Love and Respect
Defined, When Finances Become Deal Breakers, Learning to Let
Go of the Past, Focusing on the Eternal When the Temporal Feels
Too Painful, Seeing Older Parents Through the Lens of Grace,
Recognizing Your Parents Personalities May Completely Disappear,
Gently Challenging Parents to Keep Using Their Gifts and Talents,
Sharing Your Faith with Unbelieving Parents, and many more.

ENDORSEMENTS

"As a former caregiver, I find Michele's caring tips to be spot on. Caring for Our Aging Parents offers hope and encouragement for scenarios any caregiver can experience. . . . If you're new to caregiving or it's become your way of life, Caring for Our Aging Parents will help you in your journey."

-Linda Goldfarb, author/speaker, Christian life coach, personality profiler, and founder of Parenting Awesome Kids

"Eminently practical yet also keenly inspirational, Michele Howe's Caring for Our Aging Parents is the kind of book you don t want to need, yet the one you'll be thrilled to own when the time comes to care for a loved one. Packed with personal insights and spiritual fuel for the journey, this book provides the perfect companionship to help transform a challenging phase of life into a gifted opportunity to serve with love."br>
-Lisa M. Hendey, author of The Grace of Yes and founder of CatholicMom.com
"I have found the stories Howe shares to be completely relatable, and I keep thinking, 'That s me!' Her insight is based on experience, and it shows. . . . This book needs to be in the hands of everyone who is or will soon be the go-to caretaker of an aging loved one."

-Diane Markins, author of Contentment Connection: 75 Ways to Grow Joy & Satisfaction

About this title

About the Author:

Michele Howe is the author of seventeen books, mostly on parenting,
such as Empty Nest, What s Next? (2015), Burdens Do a Body Good
(2010), Still Going It Alone (2008), and Going It Alone (1999).
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Review:

When Howe (a reviewer for PW) and her husband were "thrust into caring for our elder neighbor/relative," they learned how unpreparedthey were. In this concise book, they take what they learned from thatand subsequent experiences, and condense it into a guide meant to offeradvice and solace to caregivers of all kinds. Chapters such as "ToughLove" and "Love and Respect for Others" take on specific challenges many caregivers encounter, such as the strain caregiving places on otherrelationships and the effects of caregiving on the caregiver. Eachchapter contains a "Take-Away Action Thought," which is meant to inspire further contemplation outside the text, as well as a brief prayersection titled "My Heart's Cry to You, O Lord," providing prayers thatfocus on the contents of that chapter. The book emphasizes the emotional aspects of caregiving; any practical advice it contains stems fromanecdotes from the author's life, but the focus is on the caregiver. Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1619708353
• ISBN 13: 9781619708358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148