(Pages # 1-14)
Just seeing the title of this manuscript made me very interested in what I was about to read. I have a father who is about to be considered elderly, almost at the age of 65. I know that soon I myself will have to look into some options for long term care. I know that it will be a difficult process and studying about the field of health care makes it all the more confusing for me because there are just so many different options. Aging happens to everyone and affects everyone differently, but having someone's view on how they handled their aging parent can be a comfort and can help me make fewer mistakes when it comes to be my time to go down that path. Now back to the manuscript, I enjoyed the introduction to his life as a child and how he was raised and grew up with his mother. It let's me have a better understanding of his mother's personality and how the aging process affected her because of it. As he states, we do owe our parents a lot and nothing we do can ever repay them. They invested so much in us and the least we could do is to take care of them in the last few years of their lives. Chapter 2 had begun a list of his recommendations that described the many difficult aspects of taking care of your parent and the situations that are likely to arise and how to handle them. I will go into how I feel about these recommendations in the next blog entry.
