"Honor thy father and thy mother." A challenging commandment at any time, but more particularly so as parents age and their needs become the responsibility of their adult children. McKenna, president of Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, has drawn upon his experiences caring for his own parents and in-laws to create a sensitive guide for readers who are facing similar situations.

The author explores every facet of caring for aging parents, and his faith is a source of both hope and reality. For Christians, age should bring with it wisdom and honor, and death is not an end but an entry into the presence of Christ. So, for the believer, a parent's spiritual well-being is as critical as his or her physical health.

Blending practical information with compassion, McKenna offers insight into this and the many other issues that accompany aging. He punctuates his text with valuable checklists such as 15 steps to determining if a parent should live with an adult child, 14 questions to be answered about financial and legal matters and the rights and responsibilities of the Christian caregiver.

Readers are also given focused guidelines and pastoral encouragement for working through these complex issues.

Read Online: When Our Parents Need Us Most

Paperback: 128 pages
Author: David L. McKenna
Publisher: Shaw Books (March 7, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0877889023
ISBN-13: 978-0877889021

INTRODUCTION
Jim, Beth, Bob, and Bonnie all asked me the same question at separate times: "What book are you writing now?" Flattered by their interest,  I answered, "Tentatively, it's title When Our Parents Need Us Most or When Our Parents Grow Old." Their common response took me by surprise. With just the slightest variation in words, each of them pleaded, "Finish it soon. I need it now."

Jim, the president of a publishing company, in his early fifties, went on to explain that he and his wife were trying to delay the decision to move an eighty-two-year-old mother into a nursing home.

Beth, almost forty and an administrative assistant to a college president, reported being at a loss in trying to counsel her mother, who felt torn between her responsibilities to her husband at home and her own mother, who had fallen and broken her hip in a distant city. ...

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