On Our Own: A Single Parent's Survival Guide - Hardcover

Next to health, making satisfactory living arrangements is the most important consideration of elderly people and their adult children. Many new housing choices now exist in addition to nursing homes or residence with younger family members. Carlin and Mansberg, who looked at congregate housing in If I Live To Be 100 ( LJ 1/84), focus here on residence sharing and group homes as well as congregate and life-care communities. Such cooperative arrangements offer independent living without isolation and loneliness. This helpful work includes checklists to evaluate the elder's functional abilities, health, finances, and life-style preferences, as well as lists of agencies on aging and housing. Karen McNally Bensing, Metropolitan General Hospital Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This straightforward volume provides practical guidance for the time when it becomes necessary to "persuade, cajole, or lobby" elderly parents into making major changes in their lives. The authors explore housing arrangements for senior citizens, including shared homes, "congregate communities" and live-in help and provide examples of them. Special heed is given to the older person's need for independence, physical safety and social comfort. Checklists, addresses and various governmental agencies are provided in the index. This helpful book dispels the notion that senior living arrangements need be, as the character Rappaport put it in a recent Broadway play, either "Siberia, Devil's Island or kindergarten."
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.