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In telling the intimate account of caring for her aged and ailing mom, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the quickly increasing variety of adult children accountable for ageing parents. Gross deftly weaves the details of her personal experience - a widowed mom with mounting health issues, the attendant collision of dread and ignorance, the awkward role reversal of mother or father and child, unresolved family relationships with her mom and sibling, the discord between her day job and caregiving - with a comprehensive source for effectively controlling the lives of your respective own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact. Packed with information, A Bittersweet Season clarifies which questions to ask when looking for a medical home or assisted living facility; how to unravel the mysteries of Medicare and Medicaid; why finding a fresh general practitioner should always be the first move when relocating an elderly mother or father; how to weigh quality against level of life when contemplating medical interventions; why you need to always keep a phone charger and a supplementary pair of eyeglasses in your car; plus much more. In addition, it provides astute commentary on a nationwide health-care system that has stranded two generations to fend for themselves as of this most difficult of times. No less important will be the lessons of the individual spirit that Gross discovered within the last many years of her mother's life, and afterward, when writing for the New York Times and The New LATER YEARS, a blog she launched for the publication. Calling upon firsthand experience and intensive reporting, Gross recounts a tale of sophistication and compassion amid a crisis that shows us how the end of 1 life presents a bittersweet opportunity to heal old wounds and discover what we are constructed of. Wise, unflinching, and ever before helpful, A Bittersweet Season can be an essential guide for anyone navigating this new, psychologically challenging, powerfully emotional, and frequently redemptive territory.
