My Father's Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807079650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"My Fathers Keeper Book Review" according to Jess L.. My Father's Keeper is the story of a gay man in midlife who must learn to care for his elderly parents when their health begins to fail. The novel takes you through his life roles as he undergoes a shift in responsibilities. We are taken through the struggles that both Silin and his parents must endure as becomes the caretaker and his parents accept their new limitations. This story conveys Silins struggles with distancing his himself from his parents enough that he can understand them, but not absorb the anger caused by their illness. The ultimate message. Have You Been There Yet? Dr. J. Randy Beggs I've been there. Caregiving is maddening. This work actually protrays the love and insantity that go with the job.
. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Silin's work is at once thoughtful and erudite. From Publishers Weekly When his elderly parents begin failing in health, the author, a Bank Street College educator, must come to terms with a drastic shift in caretaking roles. Losing control of his body, the father reasserts his authority by taking care of finances while lashing out at his son, leaving him feeling "ambushed," intimidated and reluctant to visit the nursing hom
Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought them into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a difficult and emotionally fraught relationship.My Father's Keeper chronicles the unexpected ways in which the ideas and skills Silin acquired as an early childhood educator, a specialist in life span development, and a compassionate witness to the devastation of the HIV/AIDS crisis came together with his interest in human psychology to deeply inform his thinking about the dramatic changes in his family's life and increasingly influence his role as his father's (and mother's) keeper. Through th