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How Siblings Cope When Parents Start to Fail

There comes a time in the life of every family when roles must be reversed and children begin to care for their parents. Research shows that the job of caregiver most often falls to daughters. And those who live geographically closest to their ailing parent shoulder the greater share of the burden.

It is common for [...]

January 26th, 2010 | Category: self-help books, senior health | Comments are closed

New Book Tells How to Shave Years Off Appearance

There’s a new book out — You: Staying Young — that is chock full of tips that promise to make you look younger than your age in as little as 90 days. Doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz culled more than 35,000 medical and scientific studies about aging to find common sense things we can [...]

October 30th, 2007 | Category: self-help books, senior health, women's health | Comments are closed

Books That Heal the Soul and Inspire the Spirit

My family is coping with the slow deterioration of my father’s health. It is difficult to see the daily loss of physical ability and stamina, the seesawing mental accuity — here this minute, gone the next — the struggle to do the simplest tasks. It is challenging to deal with the daily frustration and the [...]

May 31st, 2007 | Category: dying, self-help books | Comments are closed