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  • Gross, Jane.
     
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  • Gross, Jane -- Family.
     
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  • Aging parents -- Care -- United States.
     
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  • Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States.
     
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  • Caregivers -- Psychology.
     
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  • Caregivers.
     
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    A bittersweet season : caring for our aging parents-- and ourselves / Jane Gross.
    by Gross, Jane.
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    New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2012.
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  • Gross, Jane -- Family.
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  • Aging parents -- Care -- United States.
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  • Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- United States.
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  • Caregivers -- Psychology.
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  • Caregivers.
  • ISBN: 
    9780307472403 (paperback) :
    030747240X
    Description: 
    xiv, 434 pages ; 21 cm
    Edition: 
    1st Vintage books edition.
    Contents: 
    Finding our better selves -- The early heroic rush -- The myth of assisted living -- The vestiges of family medicine -- A job for professionals -- The best doctors money can buy -- September eleventh -- September twelfth -- The biology, sociology, and psychology of aging -- A nursing home Thanksgiving -- The Make-A-Wish Foundation -- Follow the money -- Therapeutic fibs -- Cruel sorting -- As complicated as a Rubik's cube -- The time for talking -- N-O-W -- Dying days -- Orphans -- Lost and found.
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    Discusses the challenges and provides insight for adult children who face the role reversal of parent and child, examining what questions to ask when researching assisted care facilities or nursing homes, explaining the intricacies of Medicare and Medicaid, and sharing lessons based on the author's experiences during the last years of her mother's life.
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