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A Conspiracy of Silence: Caregiving Issues with Aging Parents

Session #: 710-528
Presenter(s): Barry Jacobs
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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When a medical crisis occurs involving an aging parent or disabled spouse, a conspiracy of silence frequently results. Spouses, adult children, and siblings often avoid important discussions about medical options, end-of-life decisions, and financial and caregiving complications from fear of offending their loved ones, overturning family routines, and committing themselves to sacrifices they'd rather not make. In this workshop, we'll review the essential family conversations that are key to resolving these complicated, touchy, but vital issues, including the changed balance of giving and receiving, financial issues, end-of-life wishes, and questions of shared and/or individual duties and responsibilities. We'll outline ways of engaging and employing the family's sense of mission and spiritual values to frame emotionally charged but trust-enhancing conversations between adult children and their failing parents, between ill and well spouses, and among contentious siblings.

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