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The Challenges of Caring for an Aging Parent


 

Book Selections For Caregivers

“Caregiving at Home,” by Dr. William Leahy and the editors of Hartman Publishing (Albuquerque: Hartman Publishing, 2005).

“How to Care for Aging Parents,” by Virginia Morris (New York: Workman Publishing, 2004).

“It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care,” by Dr. Robert L. Kane and Joan C. West (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005).

“Meeting the Challenges of Chronic Illness,” by Dr. Robert L. Kane, Reinhard Priester, J.D., and Annette M. Totten, Ph.D. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

“Our Parents, Ourselves: How American Health Care Imperils Middle Age and Beyond,” by Judith Steinberg Turiel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

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