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• Aging With Care

  Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home

  Lambert, Amanda

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  If hiring an in-home caregiver for yourself or an older parent is a possibility, check out this guide to help you determine what kind of care is needed and lead you through the hiring process.

• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

  [a Memoir]

  Chast, Roz

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  Biting, occasionally dark humor in graphic novel form from the loving and frustrated daughter whose parents didn't want to talk about the inevitable.

• The Caregiver's Survival Handbook

  How to Care for Your Aging Parent Without Losing Yourself

  Abramson, Alexis

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  Written particularly for those family members, often women, who take on caregiver roles and need emotional support themselves.

• The Complete Eldercare Planner

  Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help

  Loverde, Joy

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  From housing to medicine to money issues, this book lays out the questions families must face together.

• Eldercare 101

  a Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing

  Saavedra, Mary Jo

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  A guide to all aspects of aging, including end-of-life issues, that will help both those who are preparing well in advance, along with those who have to make quick decisions.

• The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers

  Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping An Aging Parent

  Jacobs, Barry J.

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  This book uniquely addresses the more emotional as well practical concerns by crafting its questions and answers to go with the fictional narrative of a pair of sisters who are helping their mother, a cancer patient.

• How to Care for Aging Parents

  a One-stop Resource for All Your Medical, Financial, Housing, and Emotional Issues

  Morris, Virginia

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  A manual that covers a lot of ground and is broken into manageable sections. A bestseller of its kind, it is recommended by the AARP.

• Necessary Conversations Between Families and Their Aging Parents

  Kaufman, Gerald W., 1939-

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  Family counselors give advice on how to have those necessary, difficult conversations before a crisis hits.

• Stages of Senior Care

  Your Step-by-step Guide to Making the Best Decisions

  Hogan, Paul, 1962-

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  The people behind "Home Instead" home care company lay out advice and answer questions about how to make decisions on care as time goes on.

• Strength for the Sandwich Generation

  Help to Thrive While Simultaneously Caring for Our Kids and Our Aging Parents

  Bertini, Kristine, 1955-

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  Caregiving is difficult if it's for "only" one person, but, when caught between two sets of people with very different needs--possibly while trying to hold another job, it can sometimes seem unbearable. But others have done what you are undertaking,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They're Your Parents, Too!

  How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy

  Russo, Francine

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  Grown kids acting like, well, kids when their parents really need them is an all too common problem.

• Visits

  Caring for An Aging Parent : Reflections and Advice

  Chearney, Lee Ann, 1959-

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  With her 65-year-old mother living in a nursing home due to Parkinsons and her 85-year-old grandmother living independently, the author had a unique perspective on how to keep caring under different circumstances.

• Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old?

  Plan Now to Safeguard Your Health and Happiness in Old Age

  Loverde, Joy

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  If you don't have children or close friends who are willing to help you as you get older, you still need a plan. This book equips readers to prepare for medical, financial, and health decisions on their own.

• Elder Helpers

  View on elderhelpers.org

  A non-profit that matches background-checked volunteers with seniors in need of assistance.

• How to hire in-home help when your aging parents don’t want to move

  View on pbs.org

  PBS gives an overview of the problems and solutions possible when parents want to stay at home but do need help. Links to resources.

• SeniorNavigator: A Virginia Navigator Web Site

  View on seniornavigator.org

  If you need to find services or advice on caring for elderly friends or relatives, this is a good place to start.