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Caregiving Book Club Join our book club, where we enjoy great books with a slant toward caregiving. Our February selection is "Senior Days: Insightful Tales and No-Nonsense Help from the Frontlines of Eldercare" by Colleen Nicol with Brian Nicol. The authors will join our discussion, which will begin the last week of February. You can receive a 15% discount on the book; go here to purchase: http://conciergemarketing.com/store/product.php?productid=597113 Please register at our Caregiving Forum to join our discussion. Previous book club selections: --"To Survive Caregiving: A Daughter's Experience, A Doctor's Advice on Finding Hope, Help and Health" by Dr. Cheryl Woodson. Dr. Woodson joined our discussion. -- "Finding Meaning with Charles: Caregiving with Love through a Degenerative Disease" by Janet Edmunson. Janet joined our dicussion. --"6 Years of Grace, Caregiving Episodes With My Mother". The author, Jennifer Sokol, joined our discussion. --"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; discussion with the author --"Josefina, the Christmas Cow" by P. Bryn Benson; discussion with the author --"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; discussion with the author --"Griefstruck: When a Death Changes Your Life" by Mary Ann Greene, MPS, MS, LPC and Marguerite O’Connor, M.Ed., LFD; discussion with the authors --"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 (Nell joined our discussion) --"The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting" by Elizabeth Cohen (Elizabeth was a 2003 Caregiver of the Year winner and joined our discussion) --“Motherland, Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past” by Fern Schumer Chapman (Fern joined our discussion) --"What Happens Next? A Family Guide to Nursing Home Visits..and More", written by Chloe Giampaolo (Chloe joined our discussion) --"A Good Distance" by Sarah Willis. --"Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul" by LeAnn Thieman (LeAnn joined our discussion) --"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; discussion with the author --"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; discussion with the authors. --"God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart, 12 Ways to Keep It Together" by Gretchen Thompson; discussion with the author. --"On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal" by Tom Barbash --"Falcons' Flight" by Linda Linton; Linda joined our discussion. --"Love, Honor and Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out About the Choices and Challenges of Caregiving" by Suzanne Geffen Mintz, Kathleen A. Kelly; discussion with the author. Tell a friend about this article:

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