Recently, a pastor-friend of a pastor-friend went on a search for a few resources helpful in caring for aging parents. A few others joined in on the search and here is a bit of what we came up with. If you are caring for aging parent, perhaps these resources will encourage and equip you.
Caring for Aging Parents
Women Counseling Women by Elyse Fitzpatrick, Chapter 10 by Holly Drew “Hope for Caregivers of the Elderly”
The Art of Aging by Howard Eyrich
Wrinkled, but Not Ruined: Counsel for the Elderly by Jay Adams
Women Helping Women by Carol Cornish and Elyse Fitzpatrick. A chapter entitled, “Counseling Women Facing Dying and Death,” also a chapter entitled “Counseling Women in the Afternoon of Life”
Don’t Waste Your Cancer by John Piper
Pain: The Plight of Fallen Man by James Halla, MD
The Christian Counselor’s Medical Desk Reference by Robert Smith, MD; search for “cancer and death”
A Word for the Aged by William Bridge, Puritan booklet containing a theology for the aged. An excellent and very positive encouragement to think biblically.
Sunsets: Reflections on Life’s Final Journey by Deborah Howard
Help for the Caregiver by Michael Emlet, CCEF
Appendix B in ‘You Never Stop Being A Parent’ by Jim Newheiser and Elyse Fitzpatrick is entitled Role Reversal: Children Caring For Parents (pp. 175-180).
The 36 Hour Day written primarily for care giving of loved ones with Alzheimer’s.
Caring For Your Aging Parents by Barbara Deane
Here is a podcast episode with Time Lane and Mike Emlet – here
