Parenting Our Parents

Prologue: Why I Wrote This Book



1 Finding Out Our Parents Need Someone to Help Them



2 Choosing POP-or Not



3 Entering POP in the Middle of a Crisis



4 Learning More Than We Wanted to Know: Our Parents' Financial, Health, Legal, Spiritual, and Other

Issues



5 Doing and Undoing Paperwork: Making Our Parents Safer and Part of the Twenty-First Century



6 Facing Down the Life-and-Death Mission of POP-Theirs and Yours



7 Discovering Our Parents May Need to Leave Home



8 Finding the Best Fit for Our Parents' New Home



9 Dealing with All Our Parents' Stuff



10 Settling Our Parents into Their New Lives



11 Trying to Make a Permanent POPlan: Do You Want to See God Laugh?



12 Expecting the Unexpected When We're Doing POP



13 Turning POP into Our Giant Do-Over: Forgiveness, Compassion, and Gratitude Fill the Space



14 Waiting as Our Parents Become Frailer, Weaker, Smaller, and Maybe Worse



15 Doing the Only Thing Left: Comfort-Filling Your Parents



16 Letting Go of the Beloved Parents We've Parented



17 When POP Is Over and We Need to Launch Our New Lives



Epilogue: Where Do We All Go from Here?



Notes



Acknowledgments



Suggested Reading



Index



About the Author

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