You and Your Ageing Parents: How to Balance Your Needs and Theirs

Positive and reassuring, You and Your Ageing Parents offers strategies for dealing sensitively with your loved ones. Writing from personal as well as professional experience, she offers advice on how to make their lives more pleasurable and fulfilling, ways to avoid feeling guilty, how to share the obligation evenly and tips for making sure you keep your own faculties fresh for as long as possible. The book also touches on planning for the future in terms of thinking about assistance from local social services, the NHS and where to find information on these matters. It is valuable and down-to-earth advice for the sandwich generation who are responsible not only for their children but also for their ageing parents.