Bibliograph

Parenting our parents, transforming the challenge into a journey of love, Jane Wolf Frances

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Parenting our parents, transforming the challenge into a journey of love, Jane Wolf Frances

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Parenting our parents

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1081385461

Responsibility statement

Jane Wolf Frances

Sub title

transforming the challenge into a journey of love

Summary

A planning guide to take care of aging parents

Table Of Contents

Prologue: why I wrote this book -- Finding out our parents need someone to help them -- Choosing POP - or not -- Entering POP in the middle of a crisis -- Learning more than we wanted to know: our parents' financial, health, legal, spiritual, and other issues -- Doing and undoing paperwork: making our parents safer and part of the twenty-first century -- Facing down the life-and-death mission of POP-theirs and yours -- Discovering our parents may need to leave home -- Finding the best fit for our parents' new home -- Dealing with all our parents' stuff -- Settling our parents into their new lives -- Trying to make a permanent POPlan: do you want to see God laugh? -- Expecting the unexpected when we're doing POP -- Turning POP into our giant do-over: forgiveness, compassion, and gratitude fill the space -- Waiting as our parents become frailer, weaker, smaller, and maybe worse -- Doing the only thing left: comfort-filling your parents -- Letting go of the beloved parents we've parented -- When POP is over and we need to launch our new lives -- Epilogue: where do we all go from here?

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