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