Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Stressed-out Children by G.

Description: Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent by G. Lebow Offers advice on caring for aging parents, and tells how to end cycle of blame, guilt, and anger. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Do You Have An Aging Parent Who --Blames you for everything that goes wrong?Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though theres no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one. While its rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.For the first time, heres a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including: How to tell your parent he or she cannot live with you. How to avoid the cycle of nagging and recriminations How to prevent your parents negativity from overwhelming you. How to deal with an impaired parent who refuses to stop driving. How to asses the risk factors in deciding whether a parent is still able to live alone. Author Biography Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. This is their first book. Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. This is their first book. Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane, the co-founders of Aging Network Services of Bethesda, Maryland, are clinical social workers and care managers, specializing in older people and their families. They created a nationwide network of similar professionals to work with geographically separated families. This is their first book. Details ISBN038079750X Short Title COPING W/YOUR DIFFICULT OLDER Language English ISBN-10 038079750X ISBN-13 9780380797509 Media Book DEWEY 306.874 Year 1999 Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780380797509 Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1999-02-01 NZ Release Date 1999-02-01 US Release Date 1999-02-01 UK Release Date 1999-02-01 Author G. Lebow Pages 203 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Format Hardcover Publication Date 1999-02-01 Imprint HarperPaperbacks Subtitle A Guide for Stressed-out Children Audience General Imprint US William Morrow Paperbacks Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138834577;

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