Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye

Book, 2007, 163 pp
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In this moving and life-affirming book, we're given a clear and realistic account of the many challenges of caring for an elderly loved one. Along the way, the author notes the spiritual crises she encountered, not the least of which included fear of her own suffering and death.

"During the almost seven years I spent with my mother's dementia," she writes, "it often seemed as if she were trapped under the rubble of an earthquake, her rationality, curiosity, humour, and generous spirit slowly suffocating under the wreckage of her ruined brain ... Nothing had ever confronted so forcefully my faith that an ultimate graciousness dwelt at the heart of the world and cared for us."

This book will be a helpful companion to those who have recently assumed the role of caregiver, helping them anticipate some of the emotional turbulence they will encounter along the way.

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