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Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America's Most Urgent Health Crisis
St. Martin's Press
June 2009
On Sale: May 26, 2009
303 pages
ISBN: 0312380992
EAN: 9780312380991
Kindle: B002LA09BC
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
When his mother-in-law died suddenly and his seriously
ill father-in-law was left with no one to care for him, the
author and his wife were thrust into the complex and
overwhelming world of long-term care. Just months later his
own father fell sick, and the couple struggled to help care
for him too—from 1000 miles away. Over the next year-
and-a-half, this ordinary family faced one crisis after
another, as each day brought new struggle and pain, but also
surprising rewards. They were among the 44 million Americans
who are caring for elderly parents or relatives or friends
with disabilities. Someone you love will almost certainly
need long-term care services before they die. Nearly 70
percent of our parents will receive such help sometime
during their old age—usually at home, though often in
a nursing home. It will last for an average of three years,
though one in five will need this assistance for five years
or more. This book tells the sometimes painful, sometimes
uplifting, and always compelling stories of the families who
struggle every day with the care needs of their loved ones.
The costs are crushing: and the weight of 77 million aging
Baby Boomers will devastate our nation’s already
fragile system for funding this critical day-to-day
assistance. How can we repair the tattered safety net that
is so essential to our aged and disabled?
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