Positive and reassuring, You and Your Ageing Parents offers strategies for dealing sensitively with your loved ones. Writing from personal as well as professional experience, she offers advice on how to make their lives more pleasurable and fulfilling, ways to avoid feeling guilty, how to share the obligation evenly and tips for making sure you keep your own faculties fresh for as long as possible. The book also touches on planning for the future in terms of thinking about assistance from local social services, the NHS and where to find information on these matters. It is valuable and down-to-earth advice for the sandwich generation who are responsible not only for their children but also for their ageing parents.

Author Biography

Claire Gillman has been a professional writer for more than 25 years. In that time, she has written 25 non-fiction and creative fiction books for adults and children. She was the editor of several women's consumer magazines before changing tack to become a regular freelance contributor to many leading magazines and national newspapers, most notably the Guardian and The Times. As the editor of Kindred Spirit magazine, she combines her dual passions for writing with exploring holistic lifestyles, personal growth and mysticism. Claire is also an editor for The Writers' Workshop, regularly writing critiques and discussing manuscripts to help writers towards publication.