{"id":401,"date":"2014-09-15T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T11:36:58","slug":"tips-on-dealing-with-aging-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Tips on dealing with aging parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article appeared in the Montreal Gazette:<br \/>\n<a title=\" Schwartz: Patience is a virtue when dealing with aging parents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/health\/Schwartz+Patience+virtue+when+dealing+with+aging+parents\/10204120\/story.html\">Schwartz: Patience is a virtue when dealing with aging parents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Gordon gave a lecture on &#8220;Parenting your Parents&#8221;. Some of the tips he gave were as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be sensitive<\/li>\n<li>Treat them with dignity<\/li>\n<li>Empathy will help guide you.<\/li>\n<li>Slow down.<\/li>\n<li>Be patient.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t take over.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to the stories with patience even if you have heard them before.<\/li>\n<li>Ask lots of questions and know what they can and cannot do.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be rushed when there is a crisis.<\/li>\n<li>Roll with the punches<\/li>\n<li>Caregivers need to look after themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Pick and choose where you can be most effective.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can find out more about Dr. Gordon&#8217;s works at his website:\u00a0<a title=\"Dr. Michael Gordon's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drmichaelgordon.com\/\">http:\/\/www.drmichaelgordon.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article appeared in the Montreal Gazette: Schwartz: Patience is a virtue when dealing with aging parents Dr. Michael Gordon gave a lecture on &#8220;Parenting your Parents&#8221;. Some of the tips he gave were as follows: Be sensitive Treat them with dignity Empathy will help guide you. Slow down. Be patient. Don&#8217;t take over. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-information","tag-aging-parents","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}