New Caregiving Book

Hi, Everybody. I wanted to post about a great new caregiving support book that I picked up at Barnes & Noble. I don’t think I’ve posted about it before…but I can’t remember my name some days!

It’s a large softcover thing entitled “The Everything Guide to Caring for Aging Parents: Reassuring Advice to Help You Support Your Loved Ones”; Kathy Quan, RN, BSN, PHN; 2009; Adams Media.

To quote the book’s cover, its contents summarize:

- Learn how to take charge without taking over
- Provide help with medications, treatments, and emergency situations
- Handle legal issues and avoid scams
- Help preserve independence for as long as possible
- Find and use community resources

It’s 275 pages, excluding index. Very nicely laid-out visually, and information in all helpful bits and pieces — including offering a study of and a help to all — including the parent — in dealing and interacting with the process of dying, death, and grieving.

But its main purpose is to help us caregivers and our caregiven how to live — and to deal and live as happily and best as we personally can.

PS: I got accepted to my graduate program for Fall 2009, in Gerontology with Management of Aging Services Track. Maybe I can help own and make a difference someday in all this, to a greater degree.

I wish everybody here a chance to find time for yourselves, too, over this upcoming Fourth Holiday Weekend! We all freakin’ have earned it.

Hugs,
Gary