Non-Fiction · Digital book

Role Reversal

By Sikho

One in four American adults is now caring for an aging parent while raising their own children — and it almost always starts overnight, with no training and no job description. Role Reversal is the missing manual: the psychology of becoming your parent's parent, the practical mechanics of caregiving, and how to do both without disappearing into the role. Drawing on the Zarit Burden Interview, Charles Figley's compassion fatigue research, the latest anticipatory-grief science, and real-world sibling conflict, this book follows three families — a marketing director suddenly caregiving for her mother with early-stage dementia, a long-distance son negotiating dignity and safety with his fiercely independent father, and two siblings whose caregiving arrangement nearly broke their relationship before a written agreement saved it — through the entire arc of caregiving: the ambush of onset, the burden that has no name until you measure it, grief for a parent who is still alive, sibling conflict and repair, building a care team, choosing AI-era monitoring tools without stripping a parent's dignity, the money and legal conversations nobody wants to start, the sandwich-generation math that never adds up, setting boundaries without guilt, the hospice decision, and what's left to carry forward after the caregiving ends. Written for the nearly 63 million Americans now providing unpaid family care, this is a practical, evidence-based, deeply human guide to a job almost nobody chooses and almost everybody eventually does.

276 minutes estimated reading

Access, enrollment and any payment are managed by Sikho. Check the current price and availability there. This title is not included in NyzaStore membership.