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Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Jim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:20:13 +0000

When the authors of the childcare classic How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk wrote the sanity-saving Siblings Without Rivalry, grateful parents everywhere rushed to buy the book that offered solutions to…

The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies

Jim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:47:08 +0000

You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s…

36 Days Apart: A memoir of a daughter, her parents and the Beast named ? Alzheimer’s: A story of Life, Love and Death.

Jim — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:25:41 +0000

A memoir of a daughter, her parents and the Beast named – Alzheimer’s: A story of Life, Love and Death, Deborah Ann Tornillo chronicles the time spent taking care of her mother and father, both of whom were diagnosed…

Measure of the Heart: Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer’s

Jim — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:21:50 +0000

Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father’s Alzheimer’s got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life…

When Your Aging Parent Needs Care: Practical Help for This Season of Life

Jim — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:21:05 +0000

In nearly a quarter of households in the US, someone is caring for an elderly parent. Authors Candy Arrington and Kim Atchley draw from their personal experiences to speak to and support those who face the challenges of…