"The next time some well-meaning person tells me that I need to take care of myself, I'm going to say, "You're right...why don't you come and stay with my mother for a few hours so I can get out?""

"Taking Care Of Mom: What I Learned That May Help You Help Your Aging Parent" is F. N. Rosenstock's story of how her mother was abused in a nursing home, misdiagnosed by medical practitioners, and prescribed wrong medications, all of which caused immediate and long-term deterioration in her mother's physical, emotional, and mental health. When she realized she had to take control of her mother's...