They’re Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy by Francine Russo

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If your parents are growing older then now is the time that you and your siblings need to step up and start taking care of them. If this role reversal fills you with fear then this book is a great place for you to start. It provides guidance and advice on how to make the transition from being taken care of to being the care giver as smoothly as possible. If you have questions about medical decisions, caregiving issues, and the ins and outs of inheritance and division of assets then this book will help you find the answers you need.

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	Title: They're Your Parents, Too!: How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy Publisher: Bantam Average review rating:   List Price: $26.00 Sale Price: $15.14 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Free Shipping Available
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A Timely Book for "Baby Boomers"   Review Date: March 25, 2010 Reviewer: Kathleen M. Smith, Westbury, NY, US As a sociologist who studies the family as well as a "baby boomer" myself, I found this book to be invaluable to me both personally and professionally. This highly readable book is written with sensitivity and humor, and combines research findings about issues that face "twilight families" with real-life examples of siblings who are dealing with the aging, illness, and death of their parents. What makes this book unique is that, in addition to being extremely informative and well-researched, it provides the reader with the feeling that he or she is listening to a wise and supportive friend. Knowledge and support are essential elements of navigating one's way through what may feel to most of us as uncharted territory. Francine Russo now has provided us with a road map! An excellent, helpful book! *****   Review Date: March 14, 2010 Reviewer: CJ Moore, NW AR So glad we were told about this book. "They're Your Parents, Too!" is a sensitive, practical, serious, yet also humorous, book. The author, Francine Russo, was familiar to us from many years of reading her articles in Good Housekeeping, Village Voice, Time, etc., and her great column in Time, "Ask Francine" which helped me, my colleagues, family and friends, on elder business and social concerns. In this new book, Ms. Russo does a fantastic job of focusing on the issues many of us in the baby-boomer generation are facing. For me, as a sibling having an elderly parent, this book taught me to see and feel issues from my parent's perspective, and, most importantly, from my siblings perspectives. Through her case studies and excellent professional resources, Ms. Russo has "zeroed-in" on the issues that cause many of us to alternatively feel guilty, self-righteous, inadequate, and confused, as she provides solutions, in a very encouraging way. I also like the catch-phrases lessons {e.g. "You can keep the damn jack"}, to remember the messages, and to laugh at ourselves for our pre-conceived ideas, and how they can be so wrong. We highly recommend this book for siblings who have aging parents, clergy, mental health professionals, guardians, caregivers, and everyone in the field of gerontology. Thanks, Ms. Russo, for your help through this terrific book. A Must Read   Review Date: March 7, 2010 Reviewer: M. Steward, BOULDER, CO, US I am 76 and took care of all four of our parents over a period of 15 years. If only I had had this book! It nailed all the problems and gave useful advice on how to deal with them, especially if you are the one "on location." I am about to purchase a copy for each of my 4 children, because the time is coming for my husband and myself. I hope they don't stay in such a state of denial as they are now and read it and think about it. The hurt and anger regarding care of a parent is almost unavoidable. But if at least one sibling has read a book like this, that person may very well be able to negotiate a better outcome. One thing that this author suggests often is an intermediary of some kind, social worker, pastor, others. In the 70s and 80s when this was happening to us, there was no one. Our pastor was helpful, but didn't have any real insight. The best resource proved to be the support groups for Alzheimer's caretakers. It would seem that our aging population has brought about assisted living residences and other facilities that didn't exist back then. Have Aging Parents and Siblings? READ THIS BOOK! I Wish I Had.   Review Date: February 24, 2010 Reviewer: C. W. Yost, Madison, New Jersey United States I only wish They're Your Parents Too! had been written two years ago when my sisters and I cared for our mother until her death from cancer. In addition to being incredibly well-written (Russo is a career journalist who most recently covered the aging and boomer beat for Time magazine), it addresses many important issues that my sisters and I intuitively navigated blindly. Our elder care experience, while rewarding and very challenging, was aided by the fact that three of us get along well, had flexible work+life fit realities, and lived relatively close to our mother. In many instances, this is not the case which makes Russo's book even more valuable. They're Your Parents, Too! Great Tool For Caregivers   Review Date: February 23, 2010 Reviewer: Carol Bradley Bursack, Francine Russo ...has given caregivers one of the best books on sibling issues I've read....I'd recommend this hopeful and healing book to any family having misunderstandings over parent care. Russo is realistic in that many families are broken from the beginning and that these demons from the past are bound to come back, magnified, once parent care begins. If you never felt you got the love you deserved from a parent because your sibling "hogged the spotlight," you are likely to find yourself acting out in ways that are going to throw a kink in the machinery of elder care.Russo offers some suggestions that can help adult children work through, or if necessary around, these issues. Will reading this book transform every family into the Waltons? Probably not. But Russo's book does give many valuable tips to help you and your siblings understand the roles you play in caregiving and appreciate each other's viewpoint. It won't replace family counseling, but it's a great tool. Carol Bradley BursackMinding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories
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