Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living - Hardcover

Liz O'Donnell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538124653 ISBN 13: 9781538124659

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who’s caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called on to care for their parents.



Working Daughter sparks the conversation we so desperately need to have about women and the workplace. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day and a shortage of caregivers predicted in the next few years, it’s time we talk about how family caregivers and their employers will face the impact of a rapidly aging society. There are plenty of books about managing career and children, but little advice on how to balance career and parents – along with children, marriages, and friendships. Working Daughter provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers. This book is for women who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges of eldercare, the choices they will need to make, the aspects of caregiving they can control, and that which they cannot. And finally, Working Daughter shows family caregivers how they can achieve the caregiver’s gain—the underreported but well-documented upside to caring for an aging parent.

About this title

About the Author

Belinda Chiu, EdD, is on the forefront of the movement to democratize emotional intelligence as head of educational innovation for Goleman EI and faculty for the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program. Working with Ignition Coaching LLC and Hummingbirdrcc, her efforts go toward cultivating resilience and leveraging the power of play for a happier, healthier planet. She has worked in undergraduate and graduate university admissions, and published a book on yoga meditations for children and a women’s guide to the Camino de Santiago. A member of Valley Improv, Belinda currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with Bandit, the pink-nosed pup.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538124653
• ISBN 13: 9781538124659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192