Parenting Your Parents

A Practical, Compassionate Guide to Caring for Ageing Parents Without Losing Yourself (UK & British Isles Edition)

von D. M. Amunwa

82 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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One day it stops being deniable: the missed birthday, the repeated story, the dent in the car that "must have been someone in the car park." Your parents - the people who always looked after you - have quietly begun to need looking after. And nobody hands you a manual. This is the manual. Parenting Your Parents is a practical, warm and unflinchingly honest guide to the caring years, written for the millions of adult children in the UK and Ireland navigating them right now. Inside, you'll learn how to: - Spot the difference between normal ageing and the warning signs that need a GP - and get a reluctant parent through the surgery door - Open the five conversations every family avoids (money, health, driving, housing, end-of-life wishes) without starting a war - Get the paperwork done that prevents disaster: powers of attorney, wills, and the one-page document locator that will one day save your family weeks - Navigate care-needs assessments, the means test, Attendance Allowance, Carer's Allowance and NHS Continuing Healthcare - with current rates and thresholds throughout - Make the housing decision well, from grab rails to extra-care flats to choosing a care home you can trust - Respond to a dementia diagnosis with skill instead of dread - Share the load with siblings (including the one who lives two hundred miles away - there's a chapter you can hand straight to them) - Care for the carer: boundaries, respite, your rights at work, and the feelings nobody admits to - Face the final chapter prepared, accompanied and present Threaded through it all is the story of Sandra and her mother Margaret - from the Christmas when something first seemed wrong, through diagnosis, family friction and hard-won systems, to a Tuesday at the garden centre with everything that matters said and settled. Includes a 30-day Get Organised plan, an FAQ (including caring from abroad), a full glossary, and six practical worksheets. You don't have to be saintly, wealthy or endlessly available. You have to be a little bit organised, a little bit early, and honest.Start here.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174265646
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published