These stories are true, heartwarming, and life-changing.... showing how elder care services of all kinds have impacted the lives of senior clients and families.
"Priceless Caregiving" will take you on an emotional journey that gives you inspiration and hope. The stories themselves specifically show how elder care has saved seniors' families from stress, worry, and sleepless nights. The stories also teach all of us the importance of helping our aging loved ones maintain independence and choice for life.
Readers will be amazed at how caregivers have not only changed the lives of seniors, but also their family members.
This insightful and inspirational book dispels the common myths and misconceptions associated with elder care services. The real-life stories within will help the reader discover how positive and motivating having a team of caregivers and a support system can be for the entire family. Priceless Caregiving reinforces how important it is to choose a reputable elder care service that cares about their clients like family, and provides information to help you make the right decisions for you and your aging loved ones. We owe great thanks and tribute to the tireless caregivers who wrote this book.
Each contribution is from a real life hero for our senior population.
I AM CONSTANTLY AMAZED BY THE NEVER ENDING SELFLESSNESS OF PEOPLE IN the business of caregiving. Every business owner who took the time to write one, two or three stories for this book are living proof that angels exist on Earth. These people and their staff members do jobs that most of us couldn t even begin to imagine. The rewards for them are joyous and overwhelming. The families (names changed) in this book are shining examples of people who came together to do the right thing for their aging loved one. Family caregivers are often stressed out, overwhelmed, tired and worried. The professionals who enter their lives pick up the pieces and put it all back together. Even more heartwarming are the stories from the owners of these businesses who have a very personal reason for owning a home care agency, an assisted living facility, adult day care, or nursing home. They ve been where you are today. They have been through what most adult children sort of secretly hope they never have to face - caring for an aging parent. Not only did the contributors of this book experience family caregiving first hand, they went on to care for others in their own communities. If you are reading this book, my guess is that an angel handed it to you. Be sure to keep that angel around to help you and your family. These are the people who have such passion for helping families, they took the time to write it all down. Enjoy! VALERIE VANBOOVEN RN BSN Author of The Senior Solution: A Family Guide to Keeping Seniors Home for --Valerie VanBooven RN BSN Author
About the Author
Valerie VanBooven RN BSN is the author of Aging Answers (2003) and The Senior Solution (2007). Priceless Caregiving is her third book written specifically for seniors and their families. Valerie is the owner of LTC Expert Publications LLC, a consulting company dedicated to helping elder care and senior service providers with marketing efforts both online and offline. She is a social media marketing expert and online marketing expert. Valerie can be reached through her website at TheLTCExpert.com
Valerie's motto and favorite saying is: "Impact is not created by big budgets, impact is created by innovative marketing ideas!"
Valerie VanBooven is President and CEO of LTC Expert Publications LLC., a company devoted to empowering elder care entrepreneurs and senior service providers with the tools to enjoy thriving businesses and freedom-based lifestyles.
Valerie VanBoovenValerie's journey into entrepreneurship was a natural one when -- after becoming a Registered Nurse and working in critical care, discharge planning, case and care management -- she found herself frustrated by the corporate healthcare system- and started to look deeper into helping seniors and their family members on her own. After deciding to leave her final job in 2000 at a large health insurer, she reviewed her options and chose the opportunity of owning her own business.
Not quite sure what to expect, and without a mentor or role model, Valerie took it upon herself to learn what it takes to be successful. She immersed herself in books, audios, and courses on marketing, success, and prosperity. She was especially excited about online marketing because of its dynamic nature, low cost, broad reach, and easy accessibility for everyone.
From her small St. Louis, Missouri townhouse, Valerie wrote her first book, "Aging Answers: Secrets to Successful Long-Term Care Planning, Caregiving and Crisis Management". She became known as "The LTC Expert" after becoming extremely adept at marketing her business via email newsletters, or ezines, websites, and speaking engagements.
Because of that book, Valerie has been a regular guest on NBC's Today Show for their "Forever Young: A Guide to Life After 50" segments. Valerie has also appeared on CNNFN's Your Money with Ali Velshi, and has been interviewed in numerous publications including Time Magazine, and various AP articles. In 2007, Valerie published her second book, "The Senior Solution: A Family Guide to Keeping Seniors Home for Life!"
When business owners began asking Valerie for online and offline marketing advice, she jumped on the opportunity to quickly create and sell her first online information product, a complete marketing system for Financial Advisors- helping them sell Long-Term Care Insurance products. From that moment on, she fast became the foremost authority in driving sales via the internet, seminars, and e-mail for senior service providers and elder care entrepreneurs.
From there Valerie began sharing her complete online marketing and information marketing formulas via products, coaching programs, her own seminars, webinars, and conference calls. While Valerie's best known for her expertise in marketing, her students share that her biggest impact comes from her ability to make things happen quickly, even on a small budget.
Elder care entrepreneurs and senior service providers from all corners of the market come to Valerie for guidance including home care providers, elder law attorneys, financial advisors, senior living specialists, senior movers, long-term care insurance specialists, assisted living providers, durable medical equipment providers, geriatric care managers, authors, reverse mortgage specialists and more. Valerie most enjoys sharing her message in person, and has spoken on stages around the U.S. alongside marketing and motivational geniuses including Doug McLain, Brett Carter, Jesse Slome, and Phyllis Shelton, sharing her message of meaningful marketing and new approaches to old messages. She's also been a guest on hundreds of tele-seminars and webinars, radio shows, and web-radio shows.
Valerie not only serves her own clients, but also serves the Reverse Mortgage community by being the National Marketing Director for Next Generation Financial Services located in Baltimore, MD, and writing articles monthly for The Reverse Review.
Finally, and most importantly, Valerie is mom to the Whitsell Triplets- Madeline, Sophia, and Samantha Lee, and wife and best friend of Charlie Whitsell. The Whitsell clan is the motivation behind much of Valerie's current success! Valerie grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.
To keep up with what Valerie is doing, see her personal blog or connect with her on FaceBook.
**Valerie finished her 3rd book, "Priceless Caregiving: Stories of Success, Courage and Strength" in December 2009.
This review is from: Priceless Caregiving: Stories of Elder Care Success, Courage and Strength (Paperback)
This book is a written advertisement for multiple home care and assisted living facilities. I was looking for encouraging stories and help ideas to keep older clients in their own homes - no creative ideas, just stories on how great the agencies are. The proof reading in this book is non-existent. There are multiple typos and the grammatical errors make the reading difficult. For 25 dollars, for a short paper back, I expect more for my money.
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As a contributor to this book & A ComForcare Home Services Owner in the Palm Springs, CA area & San Francisco, CA I can tell you that the value of this book to Caregivers & their Clients will provide hours of interaction & experiences that will probably make a second book necessary.
As a caregiver myself this book reinforces the high calling that the caregiving profession is for our loved ones & the clients we have. The purpose of this book has been acheived!
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I am Ron Hagberg, owner of Visiting Angels Senior Home Care, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My business partner, Susan Green, RN, and I are so proud to have had a small part in telling stories of how eldercare services can help relieve family stress related to caring for their loved ones.
The stories in this book are inspiring, encouraging, and offer support to families wanting to help their loved ones maintain their independence and quality of life. Surely everyone knows a family that could benefit from reading this book.
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