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Mom, Dad…Can We Talk?
Thursday, October 3, 6-7pm. Join, Dick Edwards, Retired Mayo Clinic Eldercare Specialist, for conversations with families facing the issues and concerns of aging parents.
Learn how to have success in this unique, sometimes challenging, time in family life, when our parents are aging. It’s easy for some, not so easy for others. Let’s talk about it, and learn from the experience of others.
The Book
Mom, Dad…Can We Talk? Helping Our Aging Parents with the Insight and Wisdom of Others is a read-me-first for adult children dealing with the issues and concerns of aging parents. It is conversational, sometimes humorous and poignant, always encouraging and helpful. It is written for adult children to help them stop and think, to anticipate, communicate, navigate, and, yes, to celebrate this phase of family life and the parent-child relationship.
The book is rich with nearly 100 personal stories and quotes from adult children that help personalize and humanize support for elderly parents and the final stage of the parent-child relationship, to help ensure the best possible outcome – that of no regrets.
It includes practical advice for initiating caring conversations such as: “Mom, we’re worried about you living alone.” and “Mom, Dad, tell us what you want us to do.” and “Sister, I need your help with all this.” and “Dad has a lady friend!” Also, helpful hints on how to better understand and manage the Big D’s of aging parents: dementia, drinking, depression and driving. Livestream