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Actresses United States Biography Adult children of aging parents Adult children of aging parents Family relationships Aging parents Care Aging parents Care Iowa Biography Aging parents Care United States Aging parents Care United States Comic books, strips, etc Finance, Personal Mulgrew, Kate 1955- Family Parent and adult childSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CAROomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920 OOM1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OOM
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOM
Mindszenthy, Bart J.
Summary: "A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare. Is it time for your aging father to stop driving? How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs? Can your parents cope on their own? Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option? Millions of people are dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MINCampbell, Michael C.
Summary: Provides information on senior housing and care options, how to select the best living situation for one's parent, and helping parents cope with their new environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iffenwen Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CAMHuddleston, Cameron
Summary: "As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often-difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you'll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Summary: The author relates her poignant and hilariously tumultuous journey caring for her eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father who were forced to accept full-time home care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: "A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist--a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCPHEE, MARTHA MCPDorrance
Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and best selling author takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 MULGREW, KATE MULHogan, Paul
Summary: "Choosing the best care for your aging parents and other seniors in your life is not only complex, with multiple options available, it's also highly personal and often emotional. This essential resource -- written by the founders of Home Instead Senior Care, the world's largest provider of nonmedical care for seniors -- guides you through a comprehensive range of things to consider, step by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.61 HOGChast, Roz
Summary: "In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAST, ROZ CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem ChastMorris, Virginia
Summary: How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans--now 42 million--who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MORTamblyn Watts, Laura
Summary: "Caring for an older relative can be complicated, but this book of conversational scripts and expert advice will help you do the right thing and put your anxieties to rest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TAMMulgrew, Kate
Summary: "In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MULGREW, KATE MULLoverde, Joy
Summary: Everything you need to know to plan for your own safe, financially secure, healthy, and happy old age For those who have no support system in place, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or not, growing old does not have to be an inevitable decline into helplessness. It is possible to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 LOVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 LOVJacobs, Barry J.
Contents: Prologue -- First days -- Defining commitments -- Utilizing support -- Handling sacrifice -- Weighing hope and acceptance, fantasy and reality -- Fostering awareness and flexibility -- Protecting intimacy -- Sustaining the spirit -- Last days -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 JACIson, Tara.
Summary: Sarah, a California native, retreats to Rockaway Beach during the summer of 2001 with the hope of rekindling her passion for painting, and she finds inspiration in Marty, an elderly musician, who provokes unexpected feelings in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISORusso, Francine.
Summary: Explores the challenging transition faced by siblings who become their parents' caregivers, offering advice on how to cooperate productively in the face of emotional upheavals, differing opinions, and conflicting responsibilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010