Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents: What Care Receivers Want
By:
Cheryl Kuba
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Many books address the issue of caring for one's aging parents, but this will be the first book to consider the topic from the parents' perspective. Cheryl A. Kuba proposes an entirely unique approach to this aspect of gerontology: expressing the voices of care-receivers themselves. The dependent elderly are a wealth of information, Kuba discovers, and if we listen to them, we will be better able to help them. The 22.4 million elderly people being cared for in the United States comprise the fastest growing segment of the population, making the discovery of new approaches to care-giving more important than ever. This book draws on numerous interviews with aging people, and will discuss common care-giver mistakes and misinterpretations, what a care-giver should expect when an aging parent moves in, and how to care for an aging parent from afar. The book includes helpful resources for those caring for an aging parent in a variety of situations. Kuba explains such phenomena as guilt, role reversal, changing family dynamics, financial stress, and caring for oneself while caring for another. She also addresses the gendering of care-giving and the myth that Americans abandon the elderly.
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents:What Care Receivers Want - This book has helped my wife and her sister ....their Mom has been in the hospital for over 4 months...with emphysema,
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and a fungus in her lungs...this book helped us know that it is OK to let others help with her care..and for us not to be stressed out all the time. I love reading the stories of the aging..and how important it is to listen to them as well...but take care of yourself and your family too,so we all don't get burn out.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Book review - This book is a great resource for me as a first time caregiver. The author interviewed quite a number of seniors for this book to get their impressions and experience on care receiving and caregiving. I like the way Cheryl Kuba emphasizes that we need to respect our seniors and their wants and needs as much as possible. I would give this book to anyone who has no clue as to how to take care of an older declining senior.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A perspective all caregivers should consider - Many books discuss caring for one's aging parents - but here's a twist: a discussion on the topic from the parents' perspective. Interviews with aging people discuss common care-giver mistakes, misinterpretations, and issues, explaining emotional and financial issues and myths. At the heart of discussions are the title's focus: NAVIGATING THE JOURNEY OF AGING PARENTS: WHAT CARE RECEIVERS WANT. It's a perspective all caregivers should consider.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
If only I had known-- - If, 18 years ago, I had been able to find the practical, care receiver information Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents provides we could have enjoyed my mother's last years. Instead we battled. Cheryl Kuba presents not only the what but also the why and how of humane and loving caregiving.
The book is organized as the need for caregiving progresses. There is a beginnning and an end. The problems and fears are explained from the seniors' points of view. The caregiver responses, action items and solutions are practical and to the point. Her professional training shines through the definitions and terminology needed to communicate with seniors and with the government officials and facility administrators.
In each chapter she tells you what information you will find, gives you the information and laces it all with insights gained from her person-to-person interviews with real people caught in such a situation. The book is laid out to differentiate between the revelations from seniors and the practical information.
Ms. Kuba gently but firmly leads the reader through the agony of overcoming seniors' struggle to retain dignity and independence, caregiver's squeamishness in discussing bodily functions, finances, needs for safety and personal space. There are lists of what to do, where to seek help and information.
Above all, Navigating... is about coping. Ms. Kuba recognizes that love often gets lost in the stress of 24/7 caregiving. She provides strategies and resources for involving family, friends and community in pragmatic ways so the senior maintains contact and interaction with their real world.
My only regret for this book is that the extensive index does not distinguish between organizations/resources and subject matter.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A great reference tool, with historical backgrounds of aging people. - Seems as tho Cheryl captured life experiences in research, in the families interviewed with real life stories of how these people just seemed to age suddenly, as their health was diminishing before their eyes. Her stories reflect the true style of living, aging, caring and where to seek help for the parents and caregivers as well. We all have to partake as caregivers during our lifetime, in one way or another. It is written...
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