THEY’RE YOUR PARENTS, TOO! is the first book to offer siblings a psychological and practical roadmap through this life-changing family transition. Filled with engaging, helpful stories of sisters and brothers with struggles like yours- whether you are the family caregiver or not- it also has research and top clinical expertise from geriatric care managers, family therapists and other experts on caregiving, family psychology, dementia, elder law, end-of-life decisions, and many more issues that can arise during the time of caring for aging parents or in the aftermath.
Alan R. Mack Speaker Series...
They're Your Parents Too:
How Siblings can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy
with Francine Russo, PhD
author, a longtime contributor to Time magazine, and now a writer for Scientific American Mind.
Francine Russo discussed our relationship with our siblings, our parents (and ourselves) as we deal with our parents’ aging, eldercare, and all the psychological and family issues these raise. Russo spent many years interviewing geriatric care managers, leading family therapists, gerontologists, elder law attorneys and many other professionals in the world of aging. She shared her knowledge and expertise on family relationships and aging based off her experience and detailed research of the transitions that families go through when caring for their aging parents.
BIO: Francine Russo is the author of the new book, They’re Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy. She is a widely recognized journalist known for her alertness to developing trends, especially in her own boomer generation. She is currently a writer for Scientific American Mind. Keenly attuned to psychological themes, she has honed the intimate interview, drawing her subjects to discover and articulate their own deepest feelings. For nearly a decade Russo covered the boomer beat for Time magazine and in 2004 established a popular niche, becoming Time magazine's boomer expert in her regularly featured "Ask Francine” column. Her pieces for The Atlantic sparked media debate and were widely anthologized. She has developed an enthusiastic following with her frequent articles in media like Redbook, FamilyCircle, Ladies Home Journal, Self, Glamour, and The Village Voice, where she was a theater critic for over a decade. In 2009 she became a New York Times Fellow at the International Longevity Center. She brings a rich personal history to her writing as a daughter, sister, wife, widow, mother of two, and stepmother of three. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Manhattan.
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