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When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending costs, and adapt to the demands on her time and psyche, she learned valuable and important lessons. Here, the longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elderly care and the founder of the New Old Age blog shares her frustrating, heartbreaking, enlightening, and ultimately redemptive journey, providing us along the way with valuable information that she wishes she had known earlier. We learn why finding a general practitioner with a specialty in geriatrics should be your first move when relocating a parent; how to deal with Medicaid and Medicare; how to understand and provide for your own needs as a caretaker; and much more.
About the Author
Jane Gross, founding blogger of "The New Old Age'' at the
New York Times,'' was a correspondent there for 29 years and preciously a reporter for "Newsday'' and a researcher at "Sports Illustrasted'' magazine. "A Bittersweet Season,'' (Knopf/Vintage) is her first book. You can follow her more recent work on aging and caregiving on the "Bittersweet'' fanpage on Facebook at https:www.facebook.com/JaneGrossAuthor.
