CARING FOR THE PARENTS WHO CARED FOR YOU：WHAT TO DO WHEN AN AGING PARENT NEEDS YOU

Book ID/图书代码： 14780002B7153

English Summary/英文概要： Practical and Compassionate Support for Adult Children of Aging Parents

Just as Dr. Spock’s advice helped parents raise the baby boom generation, Dr. Kenneth P. Scileppi’s ground-breaking book gives wise and sound guidance to baby boomers dealing with the often baffling and frustrating role reversal they face as their parents age. Caring for the Parents Who Cared for You is for everyone who is now or will be taking on the life-changing role of parental caretaker.

Forgoing medical jargon in favor of straight talk, Caring for the Parents Who Cared for You guides readers through stressful situations such as calming parents when they are nervous and agitated, responding to endlessly repeated questions, dealing with unreasonable distrust and suspicions, recognizing conditions that require medical attention, and other caregiving challenges.

Dr. Scileppi also gives specific behavioral and medical advice about:
* Helping your parents to control insomnia, incontinence, constipation, poor appetite, and weight loss
* Dealing with health care professionals and physicians untrained in the special care of the elderly
* Ensuring that medical tests the doctor orders are safe and necessary
* The condition of dementia, which affects 15 percent of Americans over age 65
* Letting go
* And more

This book is based on the author’s years of work with the elderly and their adult children. Whether your parents live in your home or a thousand miles away, it can help you to gain a positive perspective and eventually to experience gratitude for the opportunity to give back to your parents.

“The care of your parents as they decline in their final years will be revealed as the only act of love that might ever be comparable to the love and care that your parents once lavished on you.”---Kenneth P. Scileppi, M.D.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 多年以前，有个医生写了一本书，帮助婴儿潮一代的父母照料他们的众多儿女。如今，婴儿潮一代早已成人，而他们的父母却开始进入老年，需要子女的照顾。子女熟悉的父母，此时已发生了不少变化，有些地方变得有点不合情理。如何理解老人，如何照料老人，对很多人来说是不熟悉的。本书在这方面提供了帮助。
本书目录
1）为什么父母衰老
2）我应该担忧吗？
3）首先做什么
4）头脑衰退的原因
5）当事情变得严重时
6）帮助头脑衰退的人
7）重复
8）头脑混乱
9）迷失
10）想象中的梦
11）情感爆发
12）不信任和怀疑
13）睡眠不好
14）大小便控制
15）摔跤
16）饮食问题和消瘦
17）对付突然下降
18）对付外面世界
19）父母与孩子：住在一起
20）做出刺手的决定
21）生命末期的问题
22）放手的时候

Awards/获奖情况：What to do when an aging parent needs an adult child’s assistance? Dr. Scileppi has worked with the elderly and their children for years: tips range from physical to psychological ailments and provide caregivers with excellent tips on how to cope with typical problems of the elderly. ---Midwest Book Review

As medical advances continue to prolong human life, more adults in the prime of life are having to care for their parents as well as their children. Scileppi offers counsel on such matters as when to start worrying about parents’ ability to continue living on their own, and then he simply, succinctly addresses specific health concerns of the elderly: falling, nutrition, incontinence, etc. In the final chapter, he deals sensibly and sensitively with the hardest problem of all, "The Right Time to Let Go." This exemplarily organized, highly readable resource for the "sandwich generation" may help many a family more fully enjoy one another at all stages of their lives.---Mike Tribby, From Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： Kenneth P. Scileppi, M.D., a board certified physician in geriatric internal medicine, is an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University College and an attending physician at New York Hospital---Cornell Medical Center.
肯尼斯-西莱匹是老年病学专家，在纽约医院当医生和助理教授。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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