The Challenges of Caring for an Aging Parent

Dr. Jerald Winakur noted that it takes “great effort” to keep his parents (pictured above) at home. It is expensive, frustrating, and depleting, “but it can be done.” Courtesy Michael Jay Winakur

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).