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3—Family Matters: Resources
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Courage and Information for Life with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The handbook for patients, families, and care givers managing COPD (emphysema, asthmatic bronchitis, or chronic bronchitis). Rick Carter, Ph.D., Brooke Nicotra, M.D., and Jo-Von Tucker, COPD patient, with Forewords by Dr. Thomas Petty, M.D., and Dr. Brian Tiep, M.D. Essential reading and reference source for the person with COPD, family members, and health care personnel.
Read "The Family Support System" pp 161-162 from Courage and Information for Life with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Read an excellent perspective on family relationships.
We recommend a book by Mary Pipher, Another Country. That other country is old age (70+), separated by different histories, cultures, and cut off by barriers formed by years of separation and illness. Pipher refers to the very different society and culture that formed older people. They remember the Great Depression, World War II, and they used typewriters, not computers. Piper makes us aware of the huge gap of culture and experience between older Americans (the ones that have COPD) and their adult children. That as a result of these different experiences, there are many difficult problems that loom in the relationships. However, she suggests that with sensitivity and creativity people can learn to communicate, understand, and love each other again. That there is a challenge that can really be overcome and that bringing people back into a three-generation household can be very rewarding. She gives many insights and stories based on her own family experience, her anthropological interviews with families, the people she helps as a psychologist. Her stories demonstrate ways for establishing communication and inventing creative solutions that work for family as well as the person with COPD.
Mary Pipher, Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders. 1999 Riverhead Books/Penguin Putnam. ISBN 1-57322-129-5
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see the other article(s) under COPD TODAY and the Resources for each.
Family as seen by people with COPD
A revealing note under the heading "My Father is Dying," by Bill Horden, a COPD activist. It is in "An Early Happy Thanksgiving Message" in the Archive of the Newsletters at The COPD Advocate Home Page