Caring for Our Aging Parents

In Caring for Our Aging Parents, Michele Howe provides

practical and necessary guidance to help readers navigate the

uncertain and emotional territory of caring for elderly parents.

This book addresses the mental and emotional aspects of

growing older, and offers sound biblical advice on how to care

for your loved ones with positivity and respect.

Caring for Our Aging Parents will guide adult individuals who are

facing the obvious and subtle changes that take place as their

parents age. It addresses a variety of mental, emotional, physical,

and spiritual areas of decline. Readers will learn how to deal more

effectively with their own emotional responses to these ever altering

shifts in their parents personalities with good grace and by

utilizing sound biblical principles.

This resource offers real life stories of individuals who have found

positive and life-affirming methods to communicating respectfully

and lovingly to their aged parents. Readers will also be heartened

to find practical suggestions for mending broken relationships and

gaining new ground with their parents, even when their past has

been checkered by pain and difficulty.

Chapters Include: They re My Parents Too, Love and Respect

Defined, When Finances Become Deal Breakers, Learning to Let

Go of the Past, Focusing on the Eternal When the Temporal Feels

Too Painful, Seeing Older Parents Through the Lens of Grace,

Recognizing Your Parents Personalities May Completely Disappear,

Gently Challenging Parents to Keep Using Their Gifts and Talents,

Sharing Your Faith with Unbelieving Parents, and many more.

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