The Designated One and the Long Goodbye: A Survival Guide for the Sibling Who Walks a Parent to the End: 2 - Tapa blanda

Libro 2 de 6: The Designated One

Rao, KV

 
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Sinopsis

You walked your parent through the years of decline. Now you have to walk them to the end.



This is the second book in the bestselling Designated One series — written for the adult sibling who, by accident or by default, has become the one running the show as a parent moves into the last months of life.



You have done the binder. You have run the family meetings. You have built the systems. Now the work is shifting — from managing decline to walking your parent to the end — and almost nobody has prepared you for what comes next.



This book is the practical handbook for that walk.



Inside, you'll learn:



• The five signs of the soft slope — and how to know when the decline is real

• A complete script for the hospice conversation, with your parent and with your siblings

• What hospice actually is (and isn't) — and how to choose between home, facility, and inpatient

• The five categories of conversations that cannot wait

• What to do — and what NOT to do — in the first 72 hours after a death

• How to run a funeral that holds dignity in the room when family dynamics get hard

• The 90-day map of administrative, emotional, and relational work after the death

• The reckoning that begins after the operational work is done



This book is for you if:



• Your parent is on a downward slope and you sense the conversation about hospice is coming

• You are inside hospice care now and trying to make the months count

• A parent has died recently and you are drowning in administrative work and grief at the same time

• You read The Designated One and want the playbook for what happens next



Written by KV Rao — author of The Designated One and a four-decade enterprise operator who turned his attention to the work nobody hands you a manual for. Practical where most caregiving books are wistful. Candid where most are cautious. Designed to be useful on the day a reader opens it.



Open the book. Take a breath. You are not alone in this.

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