LaVerne Z. Coan. CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT: Tips from Daughters and Sons Who've Cared. Volume 1: Helping Your Parent. Open Book Communications, 2008. 196 pgs. $24.95.
CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT will be your constant reference for eldercare resources; financial, legal, and insurance tips; and personal issues. As you move through each stage of caring, you'll return again and again to these pages packed with advice and information.
Unless your parent lives with you, there is probably some distance you must travel to give care--down the block or across many miles.
View the Table of Contents to see all you'll get in CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT.
Are you caring for a parent who does not live with you? Are you caring across minutes or miles?
If so, you are caring from a geographic distance.
Do you and your aging parent have a cool relationship—or a particularly volatile one?
If so, you may be caring from an emotional distance.
The thoughts, ideas, and suggestions in CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT are perfectly valid if your parent lives with you or if your have a loving, supportive relationship with your parent.
CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT does take into account that many of you live over 30 minutes away from your parent. CARING FOR A DISTANT PARENT acknowledges that your relationship with your parent may not be perfect.
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You'll rely on the Care Tips (see the Care Tips!), organization contacts, and advice in over 190 pages packed with experience to help you care more effectively and with more confidence.
If so, you are caring from a geographic distance.
