The Caregiver's Essential Handbook : More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life [Paperback]

Sasha Carr (Author), Sandra Choron (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071395199 | ISBN-13: 978-0071395199 | Publication Date: January 24, 2003 | Edition: 1

For the 54 million Americans who currently care for aging parents and loved ones, this important resource provides essential information for solving day-to-day problems in the real world.

The Caregiver's Essential Handbook includes valuable insights and commonsense tips from those who have walked in their shoes: nursing professionals, physical therapists, social workers, and loving family members whose creativity and resurcefulness offer immediate help to those in need. Here are practical solutions for saving money on medication; getting doctors to really listen; making life easier for people who are visually, hearing, or mentally impaired; and most important, taking care of oneself.

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From the Back Cover

Practical, proven caregiver advice you won't find anywhere else

Not so long ago it was your mother and father leading you down the road to self-sufficiency; now it's you they depend on as they come to grips with growing older and losing their independence. You're not alone. Fifty-four million adults find themselves falling into the role of full- or part-time caregiver for an aging or disabled family member. In The Caregiver's Essential Handbook, you'll find useful tips for meeting the changing needs of your loved one, such as:

• Getting organized: from locating important documents to simplifying financial issues
• Staying safe: from installing easy-access guard rails to protecting against fraud
• Dealing with health issues: from physical health to emotional well-being
• Navigating medical care: from a simple checkup to an extended hospital stay
• Searching for help: from home health care to assisted living

The tasks of caregiving can seem insurmountable. With the financial headaches, physical challenges, and time commitments it's easy to feel overwhelmed. The Caregiver's Essential Handbook can help you manage the issues one solution at a time.

About the Author

Sasha Carr, M.S., a doctoral student in clinical health psychology, focuses her research and clinical work on the health and well-being of elderly people and their caregivers.

Sandra Choron is the author of several books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071395199
• ISBN-13: 978-0071395199
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,356,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Home Care

More About the Author

I worked as an editor for ten years before founding March Tenth, a literary agency and book packaging company, in 1981. Being around books has given me a chance to channel a range of interests, mostly in the areas of popular culture and music, and as Bruce Springsteen's art director, I have been able to work in my two favorite industries simultaneously. I was a founding editor of Dave Marsh's newsletter Rock and Rap Confidential, and I have taught book publishing at Lehman College in New York.

The popular reference books I write with Harry Choron, my husband and business partner, are about looking at subjects from many angles and examining them each with curiosity, wonder, and humor.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful Informative Book!, March 30, 2003

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Michael Burks (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Caregiver's Essential Handbook : More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life (Paperback)

This book is a compact, well written guide to helping those who care for seniors and seniors who care for themselves. It is short, simple, and well written. It is packed full of good advice and essential resources for seniors and those who help care for them

The book is divided into logical sections that deal with caregiver and senior issues. These issues are presented in simple bite sized pieces. They are easy to understand and easy to use. Most of the information is good advice for not only caregivers but all of us.

Not only are the authors obviously experienced caregivers but they have inserted thoughtful anecdotes from people who are caregivers throughout the book. The authors are also quite obviously caring and concerned. One of their most salient points that they make over and over is that we will all be seniors at one point or another and we should look at the things we do from the point of view of the people who we are helping.

This book is a must read for all of us. As the world population grows older, the advice in this book will become more and more topical for everyone.

An excellent resource directory is presented at the back, packed with essential resources for seniors. These are great resources and highly useful to both seniors and caregivers.

This is a terrific book and I highly recommend it to anyone who is a caregiver or a senior.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An INVALUABLE resource, October 1, 2003

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TAD (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Caregiver's Essential Handbook : More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life (Paperback)

This is an extrememly insightful and eminently readable guide for the many of us who are struggling to care for our aging loved ones. As as clinical psychologist working with families and specializing in child therapy, I have been uncertain how to advise parents when they describe the challenges they face with raising their children while also caring for their own parents and aging relatives. Now, with The Caregiver's Essential Handbook, I have an excellent source of practical information and advice to offer overwhelmed families. The 1,200 tips are clearly organized and easy to locate. There are invaluable phone numbers and web sites listed in the Appendix. All in all, one can just pick up this book for a few moments and gain a lot of invaluable information.

I am extrememly grateful that my colleague Sasha Carr and Sandra Choron have provided this wonderful resource. It will make a great difference in many families' lives.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for seniors as well as csregivers, September 17, 2005

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Elizabeth Lewin (Westport, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Caregiver's Essential Handbook : More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life (Paperback)

The book is a gresat resource for seniors, living on their own, as well as for caregivers. It is easy to read and there are tips that I never would have thought of.