A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents---And Ourselves

from wbc3

I wish I had read this book sooner. Jane Gross details her and her brother's experiences with her aging mother. Their story is both sweet and bitter. Gross describes the tender moments and does not avoid the unpleasant ones. Somehow, she manages to do that while letting through the humor that her...

from nyiper

We are all in this book together. All of us need to read and absorb what Jane Gross elaborates in detail about all of the aspects of her Mother's dying process. This book is a tremendous resource, full of the factual and emotional aspects surrounding the death of anyone of us, including ourselves...

from SamSattler

Caring for one aging parent or in-law for an extended number of years can be, and usually is, a tremendous physical and mental burden on the caretaker. But these days, when more and more of us are living beyond our capability of taking care of ourselves, some caretakers find themselves caring for...

from DetailMuse

Excerpted [with some paraphrasing] from the book's section on a geriatrician's presentation to healthcare policymakers: “How many of you expect to die?” [All members of the audience eventually raised their hands.] “Would you prefer to be old when it happens?” All hands flew up in unison. Who wou...

from baystateRA

Eye-opening in many ways, this book is somewhat repetitive if read straight through because of many of the chapters' being written originally as a blog, but extremely informative and unsentimental. The scariest passage for me was this: "It's heresy, I know, to tell friends, colleagues, blog reade...