Taking Care of Parents Who Didn't Take Care of You: ... (ISBN 1568388799)

Taking Care of Parents:
Many of us are faced with the aging of parents and often the onset of dementia. Eleanor Cade's book gives us examples of that common stuggle and what other people have done to cope with this difficult transition in our parent's life. After I'd read this book, I gave copies to my sister who is a primary caregiver of our mother, my cousin and another friend. All of these women found hope and encouragement in the stories of others. I recommend it.

Taking Care of Parents Who Didn't Take Care of You:
Eleanor Cade's book has been an enormous help as I wade through elder care for my mother. It provides practical advice, straightforward talk, and especially emotional companionship. It's a really difficult situation, and we need this kind of support. My mother even read it and said it helped HER! That's amazing.

Great Read:
Given to me as a gift, I knew not what to expect, but found a very readable, thoughful and insightful book. Moreover, I too have taken the opportunity to give it as a gift to at least 7 other people. Even if you were fortunate enough to have had parents that took care of you, this is a sensible, reflective, and skillfully written manual for dealing with any emotions associated with aging parents.

Taking care of Parents Who Didn't take care of you:
This is the most worthless piece of drivel I have ever read. The description is very misleading. It does nothing but serve up platitudes, with no concrete steps to resolving a problem. Every instance ends up the same-forgive them, look in the mirror and tell yourself you are doing your best, ad nauseam. It does give examples of many situations encountered in caring for our parents- it just fails to give constructive ways to handle them. If I could give a no star rating, I would have for this book.

Disappointing.:
Too much like textbook. Examples didn't seem real or pertinent. The subject matter is too urgent to be treated this lightly. I expected answers not another opinion.