In the Shadows: Caring for Your Seriously Ill Adult Child

by Patricia Ringos Beach, Beth White

Overview

Provides real-world stories from parents, their ill adult children, and professionals on the challenges associated with this complex situation. Ten chapters provide insight and resources into such topics as parenting adult children, managing other important relationships, emotional responses to having an ill child, providing physical care to an ill child, financial concerns in serious illness, self-care, communication challenges when serious illness occurs, the role of spirituality, navigating the healthcare system, and coping with your child's prognosis.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016323107
Publisher:	Hygeia Media
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Patricia Ringos Beach, MSN, RN, AOCN®, ACHPN, a clinical nurse specialist and patient navigator with advanced certification in oncology and palliative care nursing, found the inspiration to advocate for parents of seriously ill adults from her patients and her daughter, who was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease while still in college. She learned firsthand how this experience affects the whole family and some ways that parents can help. Currently, she and her husband live in Toledo, Ohio, where they enjoyed raising their two daughters.

Beth E. White, MSN, RN, has long been interested in the parent-child relationship. Most of her career has been spent working with parents of both typical and special-needs children, adolescents, and young adults. Beth is a pediatric clinical nurse specialist and holds advanced certification in pediatric nursing. Caring for parents of seriously ill adult children is a natural blend of her interest in parenting throughout the life span and the adult child–parent relationship. Beth lives with her husband in Sylvania, Ohio, and has two adult daughters.