In Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents (without losing your mind) Reginato creates a compassionate and straightforward guide filled with expert tips for caring for an aging adult.
Easily accomplish important tasks:
- Assist with tracking medications to avoid errors.
- Create a safer home environment to prevent falls and accidents.
- Keep yourself in a good frame of mind to avoid burning out.
- Select the best caregiving products.
- Manage emergency room visits and avoid hospital readmissions.
- Have important conversations about medical wishes.
- Deal with a parent who resists paid help at home.
"This is a superb book-amazingly insightful and helpful. Reginato provides step-by-step instructions to help you care for seniors while also caring for yourself. As a gerontologist with years of experience, and as a daughter, she offers practical suggestions and she gives them from the heart."
-Bob Goldman, Bob Goldman Financial Planning
"Kira Reginato has compiled a short, but comprehensive guide to covering all the bases of complex family caregiving!"
-Dennis McCullough, MD, Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and author of My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
About the Author: Kira Reginato is a gerontologist, elder care manager, and consultant who has known she wanted to work with older adults since she was in middle school and now has thirty years of professional experience.
After caring for elders in medical and community settings, she opened her own elder care management firm, Living Ideas for Elders, in 2007. In 2010, she was awarded a Chamber of Commerce Recognition Award in Petaluma, California, for excellence in service of seniors.
For five years, Reginato hosted two weekly radio shows, The Elder Care Show and Call Kira About Aging. Podcasts of these shows can be found at CallKira.com.
Reginato is a popular speaker, known for addressing the highs and lows of caregiving with honesty and humor. Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents (without losing your mind) continues her mission to help as many families caring for older adults as possible, offering simple ideas, checklists, and much-needed support.
