Caring for Our Parents: Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America's Most Urgent Health Care Crisis is a book that I've been reading in bits and pieces here and there. I picked it up at the library because I, myself, am taking care of my parents. I found this book inspiring even though I cried nearly all the way through it. It is made up of stories about families mostly like mine who have rearranged their lives in order to care for elderly or disabled parents. It also goes into the difficulties in dealing with Medicare, Medicaid, long term care, private pay insurance and other things that most people don't realize go into caring for someone at home (such as how at times just getting a loved one up and to the bathroom can be an adventure). It was a well written and moving book and it helps to know that other families are dealing with the same issues mine is.
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