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Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent : A Guide for Stressed-Out Children | 
 enlarge | Authors: Grace Lebow, Barbara Kane
Creator: Irwin Lebow
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 25315
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 038079750X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874
EAN: 9780380797509
ASIN: 038079750X
Publication Date: February 1, 1999
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Do You Have
An Aging Parent Who --- Blames you for everything that goes wrong?
- Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?
- Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?
- Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?
- Is hostile, negative and critical?
Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though there's no medical defination 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. For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including:
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 Helps keep grown children in the sandwich generation sane October 4, 2008
This book was excellent. I was having such a time dealing emotionally with my parent's behaviour and was trying to use strategies that just were'nt working. Now I know why. I've changed my strategies and can say we have all seen progress in how we are getting along. I also like that the book offers advice on how to avoid becoming a difficult older parent yourself. If you're looking for a book that offers advice and you are willing to change, this is it. If you're not willing to change, don't bother reading it.
A must read for "Stressed-Out children" September 20, 2008
As a stressed out adult child of a mother who has been lapsing into dementia for the past 6 years, I found this book to be a great resource. It's a great combination of theory and highlighted points and application through illustrative anecdotes. It's one of my books I refer back to time and again, rather than a one sit-down read.
 Spot on September 12, 2008
A lot of real life information. Chapters 3 and 4 described my mother-in-law to a tee. A lot of good suggestions on handling interactions and keeping conversations productive and moving forward.
Very practical guide... August 15, 2008
I sent this to my mother who is taking care of my grandmother with dementia, who, despite her condition, had resisted all types of care and driven dangerously against the doctor's orders. My grandmother had even locked caregivers out of the house, and hidden spare car keys around the house. My mother said every page of "Coping with your Difficult Older Parent" she turned to was helpful, and addressed difficult situations in a practical manner. It gave her and my aunt the courage to take away the car keys, offer my grandmother long-term care options, and move forward with making my grandmother's life more comfortable (and they even resolved some personal issues along the way). This book has provided a healthy "outside" voice for an overwhelming situation.
Terrific May 26, 2008
This book provided a great resource for us in dealing with a difficult mother-in-law. We still have problems with her, but the book has help identify how to cope with some of her behaviros and we seem to be able to cope much better.
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