The emotional survival guide for caregivers looking after yourself and your family while helping an aging parent

Main Author: Jacobs, Barry J.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, c2006.
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Physical Description: x, 261 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1593852959 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1572307293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes: Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD, works with couples and families coping with serious health problems. He has faculty appointments at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Widener University, and is the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He is also a widely published journalist who has written extensively for The Village Voice and other publications. Currently, he writes an advice column for Take Care!, the quarterly newsletter of the National Family Caregivers Association and edits the In Sickness & Health column for the journal Families, Systems & Health. He lives with his wife and their two children in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.