Owens, Virginia Stem.

Caring for mother : a daughter's long goodbye / Virginia Stem Owens. - 1st ed. - Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2007. - xii, 163 p. ; 22 cm.

An opening note to the reader -- At the back of the book -- Crossing the bridge -- What's natural? -- Medicine men -- Demented -- Spent light -- The crash -- The nursing home -- Guilt and the severed self -- Losing language -- Which brain? -- Waiting beside the rubble -- Thanksgiving at Fair Acres -- The hour of our death -- The last chapter.

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Owens, Virginia Stem.


Caregivers--Religious life.
Terminally ill parents--Care.
Parkinson's disease--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Adult children of aging parents--Religious life.

BV 4910.9 .O94 2007