NEW YORK TIMES
JANE BRODY, Francine Russo ['s ]...excellent new book"
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LIBRARY JOURNAL
NOT TO BE MISSED ... FRANCINE RUSSO'S They're Your Parents, Too!!
More than a how-to book, this GROUNDBREAKING work illuminates a difficult stage of life."
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
"When Siblings Step Up"
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THE WEEK
GAIL SHEEHY'S 6 BEST BOOKS for Caregivers: They're Your Parents, Too! tops list
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Francine Russo on Caring for Your Aging Parents - Anyone with siblings whose parents are getting older should check out a new book by longtime journalist and author Francine Russo
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9 Mistakes Adult Siblings Make When Parents are Aging - ...journalist and author Francine Russo discusses one of life's most trying transitions: when parents are aging, sick, and dying.
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CHANNEL 12, CONNECTICUT
Francine talks about her new book
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SLOAN WORK AND FAMILY NETWORK NEWS
SIBLING DYNAMICS AND ELDER CAREGIVING:An interview with Francine Russo
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
Francine Russo... talks with the Wall Street Journal's Anne Tergesen
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NEW YORK TIMES
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
"Francine Russo has waded fearlessly into this emotional thicket...."
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WNYC.org (NPR)
Leonard Lopate Show
Interview about Family Matters
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AARP RADO
Russo discusses tactics, pitfalls and tells tales with Mike Cuthbert
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NEWS TALK RADIO 710JOAN HAMBURG SHOW
The Joan Hamburg Show
Interview about the book They're Your Parents, Too
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GLOBE AND MAIL
Caring for Elderly Parents Inflames Old Sibling Rivalries.
"Boomers with aging parents face myriad issues, not least of which is sibling rivalry, writes the author of They’re Your Parents, Too!"
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Prince William Area Agency on Aging
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Caregiver Conference, Manassas, VA
October 23, 2010
NorthShore LIJ Health System
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Caregiving Conference, Douglaston, NY
October 26, 2010
RECENT EVENTS
Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston, MA
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: They're Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging
Help for the family caregiver
5:30, June 17, 2010, O’Keeffe Auditorium
RSVP to Ashley Gravatte at agravatte@partners.org
Jewish Home Lifecare/Sarah Neuman Center, Mamaroneck, NY
BREAKFAST, PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK SIGNING: They're Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Help for the family caregiver and siblings
Fri, June 4, 8:30am – 12:00pm
Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
TALK AND BOOK SIGNING: A Provocative Talk for Boomers and Their ParentsFri, May 21, 7:30 p.m.
New York County Lawyers Association, Manhattan
TALK AND BOOK SIGNING:
MARCH 3, 2010, 6:00pm, 14 Vesey Street, NY, NY
Jewish Home Lifecare, Manhattan
BREAKFAST, PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK SIGNING: They're Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Help for the family caregiver and siblings
March 2, 2010, 8:30 a.m-10:a.m., 120 West 106th Street, Manhattan
Aging in America Conference, Chicago, March 17-19
3/17/2010
The Parent Care Wars: Crisis and Chaos in the Twilight of the Family [Poster Session]
Time: 1:30:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM
3/19/2010
Sibling Wars and Parent Care: Achieving Peace or Civil Collaboration [Workshop]
Time: 8:00:00 AM
co-presented with geriatric care managers Rona Bartlelstone and Steve Barlam
DARTS, West St. Paul, MN
A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCINE RUSSO
March 23, 2010, 3:00-5:00 PM
92Y Tribecca
How Siblings Can Deal with Each Other about Caring for Aging Parents
Feb 4, 2010
PRAISE FOR THEY'RE YOUR PARENTS, TOO!
“Francine Russo has written a stunning book about one of the most complex but ignored times of human transition—the sibling relationships when parents are in decline and then die. She addresses the many psychological demands on adult children during this major family transition, deftly knitting together interdisciplinary information from researchers, experienced clinicians, and adult siblings themselves. With her writerly skill and psychological understanding, Russo’s book is unique in the field of close relationships. A must-read for boomers who are at this difficult juncture.
This book is also important for professionals working with sibling and family relationships--social workers; geriatric care professionals, psychologists, family therapists, family life educators, and clergy. Not only is there new professional information, it is, because Russo writes so accessibly, a great book for them to recommend to their clients or students.”
Pauline Boss, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Author, Ambiguous Loss, Harvard University Press; Loss, Trauma and Resilience, WW Norton, Family therapist in private practice
“I wish Francine Russo had been my tutor as I faced my own mother’s decline and death. All the issues that came up for my brother and sister and me are addressed so accurately and compassionately in this book. This is a manual that shows us how to negotiate a healing path through our parents’ final challenge, and prepares us for our own."
David Richo, PhD., author of When the Past is Present (Shambhala, 2008) and How To Be An Adult (Paulist, 1991)
“Interesting, relevant, insightful! Anyone who reads this book will find something that opens a window to new thinking about themselves and their relationships. Russo has really done her homework. I’m recommending this to everyone I know who’s having sibling issues around their parents—and that’s practically everyone I know.”
Harriett Balkind, founder of SNOETY.COM (SECRETS NO ONE EVER TOLD YOU ®), the website for who want to stay interested and interesting.
“This book by Francine Russo will be enormously helpful to siblings struggling with the many challenges posed as their parents grow older.”
Robert N. Butler, M.D, President and CEO, International Longevity Center, Founding Director, National Institute on Aging
"Russo is so insightful, so psychologically acute and compassionate that she held me rapt for the whole book...[They're Your Parents, Too!] is the first book if it's kind I have ever read and I am extremely grateful to [Russo] for giving us her wisdom and the help of the experts whose voices guide us through what is an extremely difficult passage for us all."
Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Washington (Seattle) and Relationship Expert
“Even I, who practice mediation for a living and am able to help people with their difficult conversations, found it extremely difficult to start my own family’s discussions about caring for our mother without help from outside. Now I am committed to helping families find ways to have such conversations, using Francine Russo’s useful and engaging book as a springboard.”
Brigitte Bell, Brigitte Bell Mediation, Evanston, IL