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Indispensable!
AARP
An excellent guide for dealing with the financial, legal, medical, and psychological issues facing women and men as they care for their aging parents...An invaluable resource [that] offers an up-to-date guide to hard-to-find services and subsidies.
One of the most insightful books on this subject.
Chicago Tribune
Full of insight and great coping strategies for any situation.
New York Daily News
A thoroughly researched, well-organized, and comprehensive manual.
Library Journal
A well-written, sensitive, comprehensive guide . . . A book you can refer to again and again.
Burlington Free Press
The best resource manual of its kind . . . it touches on reality, not just cold information. Facts are brought to life by the author's compassion and wisdom.
Providence Journal-Bulletin
Brimming with useful advice.
New Choices magazine
A compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion.
The Washington Post
A work of great value, written with sensitivity and wisdom . . . it fulfills an obvious need better than anything Ive seen.
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., Author of How We Die
This is a tremendous work . . . truly excellent. It will be a great help to many people.
Ronald Miller, M.D., medical director,
Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale New Haven Hospital
Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale New Haven Hospital
How to Care for Aging Parents is well-researched and comprehensive . . . a practical resource that can be of enormous assistance to contemporary older persons as well as to Baby Boomers and the generations that follow.
Robert N. Butler, M.D., Founder,
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Aging
Comments from readers
Wow! My God! Tears of joy! Reassurance. [These are] some of the thoughts and feelings I experienced when I began reading your book. I feel like you wrote this book just for me.
Wilmington, North Carolina
What a fantastic book!! So much good advice and sources for more information. How to Care for Aging Parents is one of those books that should be on almost everyone's bookshelf.
Lombard, Illinois
Thank you for writing this book. Your practical suggestions are great, and the emotional help is as important, and sometimes even more valuable. I have recommended it to many people.
Henderson, Nevada
I want to thank you for writing such a wonderful book. I don't know how I got along without it for so long.
Silver Spring, MD
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