A Catholic Guide to Caring for Your Aging ParentLoyola Press, 2009 M06 15 - 360 páginas Monica Dodds understands the pressures that millions of middle-aged Americans endure as they become caregivers to aging parents. Her professional work with the elderly has exposed her to the complex medical, financial, and legal problems that entangle older people. Her personal experience helping ailing family members has given her deep insight into the difficulties caregivers face in dealing with these problems. A Catholic Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent is a comprehensive guide for caregivers. Dodds insists that faith is a fundamental part of caregiving, and her approach is deeply rooted in Catholic spirituality. She shows adult children how they can love and serve their aging parents better by deepening their own spiritual lives. "Caregiving", she says, "is a time of many grace-filled moments." Dodds explains how to properly assess the needs of a failing older person, and she writes in detail about the physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual dimensions of care. Three extensive appendices provide checklists for assessing needs, a compilation of resources, and an anthology of prayers. |
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understanding Your Parent | 67 |
Doctors and Hospitals | 87 |
Your Parents Safety | 159 |
is it Time for Your Parent to Move? | 169 |
finances and other Paperwork | 185 |
Some Special Problems | 193 |
Dying and Death | 213 |
The Church and Dying | 225 |
resources for Caregivers | 237 |
Assessment Guides | 265 |
Physical WellBeing and Decline | 97 |
Mental Health | 111 |
Emotional and Social Health | 129 |
Spiritual Matters | 143 |
Depression Checklist | 280 |
Evaluation of nursing Home | 298 |
index | 329 |
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Página 328 - Dragon *And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Página 123 - God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Página 40 - Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Página 230 - Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Página 152 - ... locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you.
Página 155 - Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life. and I will raise them up on the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.