Taking Care of Parents Who Didn't Take Care of You: Making Peace With Aging Parents

Book Description
This is a guide to taking care of difficult parents, parents who were themselves not very good at parenting. Sympathetic and sensible, it suggests ways to navigate the minefields of aging parents and family dysfunctions and shows how to create new, emotionally healthy roles among the old family scripts. The book illustrates its many guidelines and suggestions with stories from others who have shared the same, difficult journey. Readers will discover that it is possible to come to terms with the dysfunctions in their families of origin and find healing in the process. Dysfunctional or not, our parents are going to be around a lot longer than any other generation before them, and we will be faced with managing their care. Taking Care of Parents Who Didn’t Take Care of You offers readers compassionate and practical guidance to facing the psychological and emotional issues that arise when caring for aging parents. The result is a powerful and timely book that moves readers beyond anger, regret and grief in order to build healthy new family dynamics based on decency and mercy.

About the Author
Eleanor Cade specializes in editorial services for publishers. She has coauthored, ghostwritten, and edited many books in the self-help and recovery fields.


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Aring for Aging Parents is difficult -- it's exhausting, expensive, time-consuming, and underappreciated. And that's in the best of circumstances. What happens when adult children -- raised in dysfunctional families -- are asked to care for their elderly parents who were neglectful or even abusive? Here is a compassionate yet realistic guide to facing the emotional and psychological issues that arise when caring for aging parents. Learn from others who've been there about moving beyond feelings of anger, regret, and grief to build healthy, new family dynamics based on decency and mercy.


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