How to (re)live with aging parents

An increasing number of middle-aged people find themselves in the complex and sometimes almost unsolvable life situation of fulfilling several hardly compatible roles - working, raising children and caring for aging parents. It is an extremely physically and mentally demanding matter, which often brings with it disruptions in family relationships and even health problems. The authors - a counselling psychologist and a psychiatrist - try to reveal the sociological and psychological aspects of this difficult period of life, but above all to provide practical advice to caregivers of the elderly, including relaxation methods, anti-stress self-help, assertive communication techniques and brief legal advice. The authors draw on their own professional experience as well as their personal sources. Readers who are trying to perform such a gigantic task as caring for an elderly person in the family are thus given an extremely practical handbook, which, in addition to comprehensive information on the subject, will certainly appreciate the almost medicinal