Review of YOU AND YOUR AGING PARENT: The Modern Family's Guide to Emotional, Physical, and Financial Problems

Reviews the book, You and Your Aging Parent: The Modern Family's Guide to Emotional, Physical, and Financial Problems by Barbara Silverstone and Helen Kandel Hyrnan (1976). The authors have produced a book of practical information for the children of the elderly, a generation that often feels overwhelmed by their three-cornered struggle to help their elderly parents, raise their growing children, and live their own lives. This clearly written work reflects an intimate knowledge of the myriad difficulties children of aging parents face, and offers reasoned and expert advice in finding solutions that are emotionally tolerable and realistically attainable. In this way, the book is value to all children with aged parents, whether or not they are involved in mental health or counseling services. The book should satisfy the professional reader who desires to know something about the aging process, its impact on families, and the facts of life with which the aged person contends. The book is divided into two major sections, the first of which concerns the feelings of family members that arise as parents age and become increasingly demanding of attention and straining on the emotions, as well as a fine overview of the impact of old age on the physical and emotional health of the aged parent. The second section offers guidelines and checkpoints on family intervention, with very sage advice as to how and when the family should get involved in providing assistance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)