Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver Staebler Gretchen
Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver Staebler Gretchen Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubborn ninety-six-year-old mother--sort of a…
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Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver Staebler Gretchen
Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubborn ninety-six-year-old mother--sort of a middle-aged gap year. Can it be that easy?As mother and daughter each try desperately to keep a firm grasp on their independence, their daily battles in Mama's kitchen fiefdom echo the clash of adolescence and menopause in the same spot decades earlier. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own life, their relationship magically having become all she ever longed it to be.
In the process, she becomes a self-taught authority on aging, dementia, the healthcare system, and self-care. Penetrating the fog of her mother's advancing dementia, hypochondria, and blindness with humor, frustration, and compassion--and wine--the author slowly comes to accept and respect the mother she got, if not the one she wished for. But how long
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