A Field Guide For Families: How to Assist Your Older Loved Ones When You Don't Live Next Door

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Summary: Takes the Mystery Out of the Aging Process
Review: "A Field Guide for Families is essential for anyone who cares about an aging loved one. Whether you live nearby or not, this is the book you'll keep reaching for, over and over, to better understand what is happening to the person you care about. This is the book I wish I had when my own parents were living."
Jim Donovan, author, This is Your life, Not a Dress Rehearsal

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Summary: A Timely Guide For the Baby Boom Generation
Review: A Field Guide For Families is an excellent outline of EVERYTHING one needs to consider when helping older relatives. It is a great resource of common-sense approaches to everyday problems. In an aging population, this is a timely guide for the
baby boom generation!

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Summary: Diverse dilemmas of dealing with deteriorating loved ones
Review: A Field Guide For Families: How To Assist Your Older Loved Ones When You Don't Live Next Door is a sound, "reader friendly", and practical resource for family members who may be spread out over large areas, and find that the problems of transportation and distance impede the ability to take care of an older loved one who needs assistance. Offering insights into the physical and mental changes that come with aging, and specifically addressing the questions of what can cause mental confusion in an aging parent; helping an elderly love one change negative attitudes to positive ones; memory loss; when it no longer safe to drive; problems with scheduled medication; and the prevention of falling, A Field Guide For Families is very highly recommended for its practical advice on the diverse dilemmas of dealing with deteriorating loved ones.

Rating:
Summary: Diverse dilemmas of dealing with deteriorating loved ones
Review: A Field Guide For Families: How To Assist Your Older Loved Ones When You Don't Live Next Door is a sound, "reader friendly", and practical resource for family members who may be spread out over large areas, and find that the problems of transportation and distance impede the ability to take care of an older loved one who needs assistance. Offering insights into the physical and mental changes that come with aging, and specifically addressing the questions of what can cause mental confusion in an aging parent; helping an elderly love one change negative attitudes to positive ones; memory loss; when it no longer safe to drive; problems with scheduled medication; and the prevention of falling, A Field Guide For Families is very highly recommended for its practical advice on the diverse dilemmas of dealing with deteriorating loved ones.