Silver Anvil and National Telly Award winner Kennedy presents a razor-sharp tome on the impending national crisis in elder care. If you think her argument that "elder care is perceived to be a daughter’s obligation" is just an assumption, consider the statistic that "women lose an average of 11.5 working years because of caregiving responsibilities; men just 1.3 years." There is no doubt that her cries for a revolution are justified and that the timeframe is urgent (the over-65 population is growing nearly four times faster than the under-65 group). Covering everything from statistics regarding the state of care now to the gender gap in caregiving, this book is intended to scare most of us with aging parents into action. Recommended for absolutely anyone with a mom or a dad. --Library Journal
Laurel Kennedy does for caregiving what Betty Friedan did for marriage and motherhood. The Daughter Trap says something new and important about aging, family and caregiving in America today.
--Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Director, Hofstra University Gerontology Program
“Laurel Kennedy has the guts to tell us the straight story – that women are tasked with the often-overwhelming responsibility of elder care. The Daughter Trap shows why and how this has happened, and the economic and emotional toll this takes on our society.” -- Joan Toth, Executive Director, Network of Executive Women
“This is a wise and important book. As a daughter who was once caught in the caregiver ‘trap’, I urge daughters and other family members to read Laurel Kennedy’s new book. --Connie Goldman, Author, The Gifts of Caregiving—Stories of Hardship, Hope and Healing
“The health care dialogue in America has shortchanged the single biggest challenge on the horizon—elder care. The Daughter Trap takes on the medical establishment. --Robert N. Butler, M.D., Founding Director of the National Institute on Aging and the Department of Geriatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
“America is waking up to the fact that being a family gets complicated when old age enters the picture. Laurel Kennedy’s book offers clear-eyed answers to what can seem like unsolvable problems. --Dr. William Thomas, Professor of Aging Studies, the University of Maryland, Baltimore
“Helpful and hopeful. The Daughter Trap offers new ideas and covers the complexity and compassion of caregiving.”--Donna Butts, Executive Director, Generations United
“Urging caregivers of adults to stop suffering in silence, Laurel Kennedy calls for consciousness-raising, a movement, a spokesperson to carry the flag. We need men in on the act too. --Dr. Jacquelyn James, Research Director, Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College
“Exceptionally well-researched and extraordinarily well-written, Laurel Kennedy’s The Daughter Trap opens and defines the discussion on one of the most important issues of the decade.” --Marti Barletta, Author, Prime Time Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds and Business of Boomer Big Spenders
“The Daughter Trap will prove invaluable.” --Craig Ragland, Executive Director, Cohousing Association of the United States
