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It's Just a "Senior Moment" …: Advice For The Sandwich Generation Who Are Caregivers For Aging Parents Experiencing Memory Loss, Declining Health, And Reduced Independence
★★★★★ "Wonderful insight with real life experiences with valuable resources!" - Reader Review
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Help your parents live with dignity in their twilight years without sacrificing your own health and sanity!
When elderly parents can no longer care for themselves, the responsibility for their care usually falls on their adult children.
If you’re one of those adult children, you’re not alone. Around 47% of adults in their 40s and 50s are supporting an aging parent… and raising kids at the same time.
Known as the “Sandwich Generation”, these people are squeezed in between looking after their parents and taking care of their children.
One responsibility is already overwhelming enough, but both can seem downright impossible.
Is it possible to balance your parental caregiving duties with your other priorities in life without dropping the ball?
Can you give your parents the quality of life they deserve in their old age while also fulfilling your own needs and obligations?
How can you be there for your parents and still be the partner and parent your family needs?
This guide will help you navigate this difficult journey so that you can take care of your parents without unnecessarily disrupting your life.
Filled with insights from the author’s own personal experience with caring for her aging mother, it will make your caregiving experience more manageable and more rewarding, right from the start.
Here’s just a fraction of what you will discover
A compassionate look inside your parents’ world to help you empathize and understand what they are going through and how this affects their behaviorHow to handle embarrassing senior moments – like having to put your parent in a diaper – with sensitivity and graceThe most common conflict situations you’ll encounter with your parents and how to resolve them peacefullySimple communication tips that will help stop the resentment and frustration on both sidesThe warning signs and stages of dementia, Alzheimer’s, and memory loss and how to cope with these life-changing conditionsImportant safety measures to keep your parents out of harm’s way – and out of the hospitalHow to slow down memory loss and declining health and help your parents remain active and independent for as long as possibleWhat to do when it all becomes too much for you – find out where to go, what to do, and who to ask for help when you need it the mostAnd much more!
Caregiving is never easy no matter who you’re caring for, but it’s even harder when you’re taking care of a parent.
It’s painful to see their health deteriorate when you remember how vibrant and energetic they once were.
But while you can’t turn back time, you can make this time count by providing them with a caring environment and unconditional support!
Your parents have spent decades doting on you and attending to your needs… N
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Help your parents live with dignity in their twilight years without sacrificing your own health and sanity!
When elderly parents can no longer care for themselves, the responsibility for their care usually falls on their adult children.
If you’re one of those adult children, you’re not alone. Around 47% of adults in their 40s and 50s are supporting an aging parent… and raising kids at the same time.
Known as the “Sandwich Generation”, these people are squeezed in between looking after their parents and taking care of their children.
One responsibility is already overwhelming enough, but both can seem downright impossible.
Is it possible to balance your parental caregiving duties with your other priorities in life without dropping the ball?
Can you give your parents the quality of life they deserve in their old age while also fulfilling your own needs and obligations?
How can you be there for your parents and still be the partner and parent your family needs?
This guide will help you navigate this difficult journey so that you can take care of your parents without unnecessarily disrupting your life.
Filled with insights from the author’s own personal experience with caring for her aging mother, it will make your caregiving experience more manageable and more rewarding, right from the start.
Here’s just a fraction of what you will discover
A compassionate look inside your parents’ world to help you empathize and understand what they are going through and how this affects their behaviorHow to handle embarrassing senior moments – like having to put your parent in a diaper – with sensitivity and graceThe most common conflict situations you’ll encounter with your parents and how to resolve them peacefullySimple communication tips that will help stop the resentment and frustration on both sidesThe warning signs and stages of dementia, Alzheimer’s, and memory loss and how to cope with these life-changing conditionsImportant safety measures to keep your parents out of harm’s way – and out of the hospitalHow to slow down memory loss and declining health and help your parents remain active and independent for as long as possibleWhat to do when it all becomes too much for you – find out where to go, what to do, and who to ask for help when you need it the mostAnd much more!
Caregiving is never easy no matter who you’re caring for, but it’s even harder when you’re taking care of a parent.
It’s painful to see their health deteriorate when you remember how vibrant and energetic they once were.
But while you can’t turn back time, you can make this time count by providing them with a caring environment and unconditional support!
Your parents have spent decades doting on you and attending to your needs… N
178 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 23, 2022
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September 15, 2022
This book is probably great for someone, but not me. I couldn’t finish it. The tone was condescending and self righteous. If you have mixed feelings about caring for a parent (and aren’t ready to see it as “an honor”) then this book will make you feel terrible. It’s also heavy on her personal experience and light on useful content. Keep a journal and keep it hidden? Okay, thanks.
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