Caregiving Book Club

We read great books with a slant toward caregiving. When possible, the book’s author joins our discussion.

In March, we’ll read “THEY’RE YOUR PARENTS, TOO! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy” by Francine Russo. Francine joins us for a live discussion on Your Caregiving Journey on March 29 at 10:30 a.m. CT.

You can listen to Denise read excerpts of her book, Take Comfort, on Your Caregiving Journey via the player below. (You’ll hear the show start automatically if you have your speakers turned on.)

Previous book club selections:

• “Priceless Caregiving: Stores of Elder Care Success, Courage and Strength” by Valerie VanBooven.

• “How to Communicate with Alzheimer’s: A Practical Guide & Workbook for Families” by Susan Kohler MS, CCC-SLP. Listen to our discussion with Susan here.

• “A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription For Happiness” by Dr. Elizabeth R. Lombardo, who joined our discussion.

• “An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family.” The book’s editor, Nell Casey, joined our discussion.

• “Confessions of a Caregiver, When Alzheimer’s Comes to Your Home” by Joseph Skillin. Listen to our discussion with Joe.
• “The Seven Desires of Every Heart” by Mark Laaser and Debra Laaser

• “The Elder Care Survival Guide” by Martin R Sabel. Listen to our interview with Martin.

• “You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Caregivers” by B. Lynn Goodwin

• “Great With Money: The Women’s Guide to Prosperity” by Melissa Burke, Esq., CFP, and Ellen Rogin, CPA, CFP Listen to our interview with Ellen Rogin.

• “A Turn for the Better” by Kim Hendrickson Leffler. Kim joined our discussion.

• “The Secret to Caregiver Success” by Dr. Arnld Bresky. Dr. Bresky joined our discussion.

• “Senior Days: Insightful Tales and No-Nonsense Help from the Frontlines of Eldercare” by Colleen Nicol with Brian Nicol. The authors joined our discussion.

• “To Survive Caregiving: A Daughter’s Experience, A Doctor’s Advice on Finding Hope, Help and Health” by Dr. Cheryl Woodson.

• “Finding Meaning with Charles: Caregiving with Love through a Degenerative Disease” by Janet Edmunson.

• “6 Years of Grace, Caregiving Episodes With My Mother” by Jennifer Sokol.

• “The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir” by Howard Reich

• “Cold Sassy Tree” by Olive Ann Burns

• “Tending the Earth, Mending the Spirit — The Healing Gifts of Gardening” by Connie Goldman

• “Josefina, the Christmas Cow” by P. Bryn Benson

• “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom

• “Therapeutic Caregiving: A Practical Guide for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementia Causing Diseases” by Barbara J. Bridges

• “Griefstruck: When a Death Changes Your Life” by Mary Ann Greene, MPS, MS, LPC and Marguerite O’Connor, M.Ed., LFD

• “Final Gifts, Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying” by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley

• “Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression” by Nell Casey

• “The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting” by Elizabeth Cohen (Elizabeth was a 2003 Caregiver of the Year winner.)

• “Motherland, Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past” by Fern Schumer Chapman

• “What Happens Next? A Family Guide to Nursing Home Visits..and More”, written by Chloe Giampaolo

• “A Good Distance” by Sarah Willis

• “Chicken Soup for the Caregiver’s Soul” by LeAnn Thieman

• “Love” by Toni Morrison

• “The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm” by Harold S. Kushner

• “Finding the Joy in Alzheimer’s, Part II, When Tears are Dried with Laughter” by Brenda Avadian; discussion with the author.

• “Elder Rage–or–Take My Father, Please!” by Jacqueline Marcell

• “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” by Laura Hillenbrand

• “No More Words, A Journal of My Mother” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• “Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Stressed-Out Children” by Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane

• “God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart, 12 Ways to Keep It Together” by Gretchen Thompson

• “On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal” by Tom Barbash

• “Falcons’ Flight” by Linda Linton

• “Love, Honor and Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out About the Choices and Challenges of Caregiving” by Suzanne Geffen Mintz, Kathleen A. Kelly