Precious Days & Practical Love: Caring For Your Aging Parent
About this ebook
When one of our parents needs care, the relationship that we have known
all of our lives turns upside-down. Suddenly we are responsible for the
woman who read us bedtime stories, or for the man who walked us to
school.
Caring for an aging parent involves more than finding a care facility
or dealing with legal and financial matters. It means feeling the
frustration of always being "on call" if you live close by, or feeling
helpless and guilty because you live far away and can do relatively
little. It means riding the emotional roller coaster of having your
roles reversed. It's about the pain of being unable to change the
inevitable, but of having an inner compulsion to do what you can to make
those final weeks or years as gentle as possible. It's about continuing
to love, in spite of everything, until the very end...and beyond.
Precious Days & Practical Love will help children of aging
parents make the final months or years among the best experiences
they'll have to remember. and it will help counsellors understand the
joys and challenges families may face.
About the author
Jim Taylor is one of Canada's best known authors and editors among
mainline churches and denominations. He is the author of twelve books
himself including The Spirituality of Pets (2006), An Everyday God (2005), <>Precious Days and Practical Love: Caring for an Aging Parent (1999), The Canadian Religious Travelguide (1982), Discovering Discipleship (with George Johnston, 1983), Two Worlds in One (1985), Last Chance (1989), Surviving Death (1993) republished as Letters to Stephen (1996), Everyday Psalms (1994), Everyday Parables (1995), Sin: A New Understanding of Virtue and Vice (1997), Lifelong Living (for the United Church's Division of Mission in Canada) (1983), and The Spiritual Crisis of Cancer (for the Canadian Cancer Society) (1984).
He was the founding editor of the ecumenical clergy journal Practice of Ministry in Canada
(PMC) for the first 15 years of its publication. He was for 13 years
Managing Editor of The United Church Observer. A co-founder of Wood Lake
Books, Taylor lives and works in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley
