Cruising Through Care Giving : : Reducing the Stress of Caring for Your Loved one
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A word to help you chart your course -- Caregiving -- Let yourself off the hook -- An older adult is still an adult -- The whole caregiving crew is as important as your older loved one -- Think really hard before moving in -- Think really hard before you quit your job -- Don't be a martyr (because martyrs die) -- Fellow caregivers : they are who they are -- The senior care system : it is what it is -- Care costs money! -- The doctor doesn't know everything -- Advanced dementia caregiving : caregivers must be at the helm -- Renewing your caregiving commitment -- Your older loved one is dying -- Beyond caregiving -- Appendix. Meet the experts.
"If you're facing the daunting reality that you're about to become a caregiver-- whether you planned for it or not-- Cruising through Caregiving is the down-to-earth and authoritative answer you need. Jennifer FitzPatrick has been through nearly every possible scenario on the caregiving spectrum, both professionally and personally, and she expertly shows you how to be a responsible, loving caregiver without being overcome by guilt, exhaustion, or worry"-- Amazon.
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PUBLISHED
Austin, Texas : Greenleaf Book Group Press, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: xii, 330 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781626343191
1626343195
SUBJECTS
Older people -- Home care.
Critically ill -- Home care.
Care of the sick -- Decision making.
Caregivers -- Psychology.
Care of the sick -- Psychological aspects.
Stress management.
Caregivers -- psychology.
Home Nursing -- psychology.
Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control.
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