A Bittersweet Season: Caring for our Aging Parents and Ourselves by Jane Gross, The New York Times reporter
A Bittersweet Season is a very personal story of the author’s caregiving journey with her aging mother along with her frank and hard-learned advice on what to do – and what not to do – when caring for an aging parent. Many of the lessons are difficult to hear – her appraisal of the assistive living model, Medicaid spend-down plans, and our broken Medicare health care system – should be a wake-up call for us all. Her description of Thanksgiving dinner with her mother in an nursing home will resonate with many adult children. Ultimately, if you read this book before you need it, you will feel better prepared and if you read this book while you are in the midst of caregiving, it will reassure you that you are not alone in your caregiving role.
