Sustenance and Hope for Caregivers of Elderly Parents

The Bread of Angels

Sustenance and Hope for Caregivers of Elderly Parents

The Bread of Angels

Gloria G. Barsamian (Author)

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This volume provides a practical exploration of one of today's most complex and challenging issues—the care of an elderly parent—with an innovative approach that emphasizes how rewarding the caregiver/care-receiver relationship can be.

For anyone facing this often overwhelming situation, Sustenance and Hope for Caregivers of Elderly Parents: Bread of Angels offers a wealth of insights from experienced caregivers, extraordinary personal stories, and most importantly, reassurance and support. It is a refreshing new vision of the positive potential for caregiving and the rewards that come with evolving relationships between adult children and their parents.

Gloria G. Barsamian's remarkably perceptive new volume dispels the myth that caretaking is a thankless burden. Like no other work, it captures the emotions of today's millions of caregivers, as well as care-receivers, spouses, and grandchildren. A longtime social worker, Barsamian shows how old ways of thinking about caregiving can be replaced with new, healthier possibilities that enrich the lives of caregivers and care-receivers.

Series Foreword by Julie K. Silver, MD
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Caregiving—A Major Social Issue
1. Reinventing and Rediscovering the Caregiving Relationship
2. Adult Children and Elderly Parents
3. The Man with 10,000 Names
4. Attachment Behavior in Adult Life
5. Betty Brillo's Diary (Spousal Caregiving)
6. The Story of Illness
7. Mothers and Daughters
8. A New Life Passage
9. Ourselves Rediscovered
10. Anxiety, Stresses, and Strains of Caregiving
11. Voices of Grandchildren
12. A Good Death
13. Conclusion
Appendices
A: 60 Proven Practices for Stress Reduction
B: Mindfulness
C: Mini Relaxation Exercises
D: Thoughts That Cause Stress
E: Resources for Caregivers
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published	Jun 22 2009
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	188
ISBN	9780313360114
Imprint	Praeger
Dimensions	235 x 156 mm
Series	The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Gloria G. Barsamian

. . . a welcome resource created to support adult children of elderly parents in need of care. . . . In all, Bread of Angels provides a stimulating new focus for those who choose to face the challenges of caregiving with imagination, humility, grace and compassion. In so providing this multifaceted resource, author Gloria Barsamian has enriched all.

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For individuals caring for an elderly parent, this guide addresses essential issues in caregiving based on the author's and other professionals' experience and research. Barsamian discusses the caregiving relationship and how it is evolving, the impact on families, the effects of attachment, mother-daughter relationships, spirituality, dealing with anxiety and stress, and the impact of caregiving on the dying process, along with a diary of one women's experiences. Barsamian, a retired social worker and medical health specialist, has focused on illness, medical ethics, and adult children of elderly parents in her research.

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