SURVIVING PARENTAL AGING

On Wednesday, February 10, at 6:00 PM, NYCLA is hosting a free reading and book-signing event for They're Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy (Bantam 2010), by Francine Russo, in the NYCLA Home of Law's Library at 14 Vesey Street. (Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.) 

About the Book: Filled with expert guidance from gerontologists, family therapists, elder-care attorneys, financial planners and health workers, They're Your Parents, Too! contains real-life stories and helpful family negotiation techniques for people whose parents are aging and answers such questions as:

• Who will make major medical decisions, manage finances and enforce end-of-life choices if your parents cannot? And how will this be decided and carried out?
• How can caring for your parents be an enriching experience rather than a thankless chore?
• Most important, how can you ensure the best care for your parents while lessening conflict, guilt, anger and angst?

Ms. Russo has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and Redbook. For nearly a decade, she wrote a column about baby boomers for Time magazine. In 2009, she became a New York Times Fellow at the International Longevity Center. She has a Ph.D. in English. For more information about Ms. Russo and her work, visit her website, www.yourparentstoo.com . To read a TIME magazine article about the book, written by Ms. Russo, click here .

NYCLA's Elder Law, Law & Literature and Senior Lawyers' Committees and Estates & Trusts Section are co-sponsoring the event. 

RSVP: dlamb@nycla.org