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If you are someone new to caregiving, sometimes it’s good to have something on your bedside table as a way into this new, foreign land as well as a resource for nuts and bolts advice. Consider this for practical: If your senior always wants to wear the same outfit, buy duplicates. That’s just one idea from The Caregiver’s Essential Handbook: More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life. One customer reviewer describes it as “1) accessible; 2) practical; 3)professional; 4) concise; and 5) pleasurable to read.” Chapters are comprehensive and cover fraud and crime protection, medical treatment, and taking care of “you”.
Another book on caregiving comes from the American Medical Association, American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving. From the editorial review: “…Angela Perry, M.D., and the AMA draw upon the experience and advice of experts to address the emotional and practical aspects faced in home care. They cover home preparation, basic and special caregiving skills, choosing and paying a provider, long-term care, nursing home care, care for the caregiver and caring for someone who lives alone, someone with Alzheimer’s disease and the terminally ill.”
For another take on eldercare, “ElderRage or Take my Father—Please” has had some buzz over the years and still does, thanks to Jacqueline Marcell’s cottage industry on caregiver coping [elderrage.com]. It’s a humorous, realistic tale of “survival.”
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