About the Book
Millions of baby boomers are facing one of life's most poignant challenges - they are
becoming parents to their parents.
It is a turning point that Mary Pipher illuminated in her New York Times bestseller
Another Country - and one that Judy Kramer knows well. Confronted with new
emotional and practical challenges when her parents entered a nursing home, she navigated
through a maze of medical bills and paperwork, gained valuable insight from visits with
doctors and consultations with elder law attorneys, and found love for her parents in new
and often surprising places. It was a difficult journey, and a lonely one. In Changing
Places, a book based on her popular newspaper column, she shares what she learned
along the way.
Judy Kramer is a journalist who writes for The Gazette, a greater Washington, D.C.
subsidiary of The Washington Post. She has become a de facto public advocate for education
about, and improvement of, elder care in this country. She lives in Silver Spring,
Maryland.
