Helping daughters feel positive about looking after their ageing parents
As you get older, so do your parents and then after a certain age they become less able than they used to and begin to need assistance. Sometimes, you're able to provide some or all of what they need and sometimes you aren't. You might feel obliged to help or want to, you might feel physically able or limited, but either way this comes with the emotional reminder that somewhere ahead is the loss of your parent. Resources are available so that you don't need to feel alone and feel more empowerment to take on this role or find alternatives for where you are unable to do the role(s) yourself.
Websites Offering Support:
Independent Age
helps older people across the UK to live well with dignity, choice and control.
Funeral Services Guide
aims to be the only online resource that you’ll ever need when handling your, or your loved one’s final affairs, covering everything from coping emotionally, to step-by-step guides on handling practicalities with minimal stress.
Books on this subject:
Time To Help Your Parents: A practical guide to recognising problems and providing support
helps you to tackle the small, practical, problems that crop up daily such as shopping, nutrition, cleaning and reduced mobility, as well at the bigger, more complex issues such as independence, health, changing roles, accommodation and financial issues. It will help you to understand your parents’ perspectives and enjoy your relationships with them as they grow older.
Setting Boundaries With Your Aging Parents
will help adult children who long for a better relationship with their parents but feel trapped in a never-ending cycle of chaos, crisis, or drama. With keen insight and a passion to empower adult children, the author charts a trustworthy roadmap through the often unfamiliar territory of setting boundaries with parents while maintaining personal balance and avoiding burnout. Through the use of professional advice, true stories, and scriptural truth, readers learn how to apply the “6 Steps to SANITY”: S-STOP your own negative behavior, A-ASSEMBLE a support group, N-NIP excuses in the bud, I-IMPLEMENT rules and boundaries, T-TRUST your instincts, Y-YIELD everything to God.
Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Stressed Out Children
is a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. It 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 parent’s 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.
Although there’s no medical definition for “difficult” parents, you know when you have one. While it’s rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.
Aging Parents: Guide to How to Care for Aging Parents
Caring for my mother with Alzheimer’s Disease was one of the most difficult and challenging times in my life. Looking back upon it now it was also one of the most rewarding times in my life. If you have aging parents that are at the stage where someone has to start caring for them, this book will act as a guide for what lies ahead as the years progress and contains proven steps and strategies on how to effectively provide for your aging parents.
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