Book Club for Mortals: A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--And Ourselves In-Person / Online
Wise, smart, and ever-helpful, an essential guide to caring for aging parents.
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.
Includes chapters on the following subjects:
- Finding Our Better Selves
- The Myth of Assisted Living
- The Vestiges of Family Medicine
- The Best Doctors Money Can Buy
- The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging
- Therapeutic Fibs
See the attached discussion guide if you'd like to preview or prepare for the discussion.
About Book Club for Mortals at the Estes Valley Library
This is a book club that focuses on end-of-life issues and our shared mortality. We read a different book each month, and titles range from the practical to the philosophical, and the serious to the lighthearted, both fiction and nonfiction. This is not a grief or bereavement group, but a space to have open, honest, thoughtful conversations about interesting books and ideas. Discussions are led by Mindy Rickard, advance care planning advisor and longtime Book Club for Mortals host. The book club meets on the second Thursday of each month, through December. Each meeting covers a different book.
More about this program
We will make five copies of the book available for participants to read and keep, on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like a book, please indicate that when you register, and we'll follow up within 72 hours (likely sooner!). By registering and claiming a book, you are committing to attend the book discussion. [Update: All of our giveaway books have been claimed, but we have plenty of copies available for checkout at the first floor service desk!]
We will also make copies available for checkout at the first floor service desk, and you can search our collection for additional copies and formats (eBook, audiobook, large print, etc.).
Registrants should receive a reminder email with the Zoom webinar link approximately one hour before the program starts. If you didn't receive the email or are having trouble connecting to the webinar, please call the Library at 970-586-8116 and someone will assist you.
Related programs/resources
- Date:
- Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Time:
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- Time Zone:
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Mountain Time - US & Canada
(change) - Location:
- Wasson Board Room
- Organizer:
- Eric White
- Presenter:
- Mindy Rickard
- Audience:
- Adults (18+)
- Categories:
- Discussion
- Attachments: