"The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey" helps you answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? While other books focus on your family member or friend who needs your help and care, this book focuses just on you and what you need to manage the experience of caregiving.The handbook helps you feel better about your todays while understanding what you'll need for your tomorrows. You'll read what caregiving is really like but you'll also see that you will make it through and be better for it. The last stage–The Godspeed Caregiver–nudges you to live your dream–a dream newly defined by your caregiving experience."The Caregiving Years" is separated into six stages, beginning when you expect to care for a family member and ending about two years after caregiving ends. Because caregiving can be such a complicated experience, the handbook provides simple coping strategies, wrapped in a keyword and a purpose, to help in each stages. Each stage also includes action plans to guide you.The handbook tells the story of a family caregiver in five of the stages, as well as tips to help you navigate the bad days, the difficult decisions and the overwhelming emotions. You'll find articles which offer suggestions to give you courage when you venture out of the house after staying inside for too long, tips to help you manage the holiday season, exercises to help you understand your limits and build your team, and quizzes to make you laugh, reset your perspective and remind you that you have solutions.The handbook will prompt you to be proactive so you'll be as ready as you can for what's next, and will show you how to create memories which will comfort you later.

"The Caregiving Years, Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey" helps you answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? While other books focus on your family member or friend who needs your help and care, this book focuses just on you and what you need to manage the experience of caregiving. The handbook, now in its eighth edition, helps you feel better about your todays while understanding what you'll need for your tomorrows. You'll read what caregiving is really like but you'll also see that you will make it through. The last stage, The Godspeed Caregiver, nudges you to live your dream, a dream newly defined by your caregiving experience. "The Caregiving Years" is separated into six stages, beginning when you expect to care for a family member and ending about two years after caregiving ends. Because caregiving can be such a complicated experience, the handbook provides simple coping strategies, wrapped in a keyword and a purpose, to help in each stages. You carry each coping strategy into the next stage so you are armed with empowering tools. Each stage also includes action plans to guide you. The handbook tells the story of a family caregiver throughout the stages, as well as offers tips to help you navigate the bad days, the difficult decisions and the overwhelming emotions. You'll find articles which offer suggestions to give you courage when you venture out of the house after staying inside for too long, exercises to help you understand your limits and build your team, and quizzes to make you laugh, reset your perspective and remind you that you have solutions. The handbook will prompt you to be proactive so you'll be as ready as you can for what's next, and will show you how to create memories which will comfort you later.

The Caregiving Years helps you answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? The stages describe how you'll feel as you care for a family member with a chronic illness. Through the stages, you'll find what you need so that you can be manage today and prepare for your tomorrow. You'll also follow the journey of two family caregivers through the six stages. Reader reviews: Absolutely terrific. You really have captured the stages well, very very well...This is a fabulous resource for caregivers. Your book, The Caregiving Years, helped me enormously. It would have saved me substantial stress had I had it at the beginning of these fours years of 24-hours a day caregiving to my husband! THANK YOU! It is a masterpiece and I've recommended it for other hard-pressed caregivers and those who are about to become 'and dread it'. I tell them if they are armed with the knowledge and know-how from this book, they will be enabled to handle it.

In A Caregiving Survival Guide, you share your best suggestions, tips and resources with a new family caregiver. You pass along your wisdom, your lessons learned and your best solutions to help a friend caring for a family member with a chronic illness. With the information you share in A Caregiving Survival Guide, your friend will be armed to manage whatever comes in a caregiving day. A Caregiving Survival Guide is a great gift for anyone--a friend, support group member or colleague--just beginning a caregiving journey. Your thoughtfulness will start their caregiving journey on the right foot.

Tired of staring at a blank sheet of paper? Bloated by negative emotions that won't go away? Your journal exercises offer suggestions and ideas to keep your writing flowing and your negative emotions leaving. Your journal also captures your caregiving story, which can be liberating to tell and healing to move past.Each week, you'll be directed to write about an experience or an emotion. The next week, you'll receive three words to write about, which can help you find the next level of your story. Our prompts are flexible so write in any way that feels right.

Which words describe a caregiving role? Denise M. Brown takes 100 words--including the unlikely blizzard, kitchen and umbrella--and then turns each into a reflection. The reflections focus on a family caregiver's reality, sprinkled with hope. Denise's insights about the caregiving experience feel like a warm hug, a helpful smile and an encouraging nudge. Take Comfort will become your daily companion, offering support, understanding and acceptance. Readers say: "Isn't this BEAUTIFUL!!!!" "Thank you for my comforts they are inspirational and always put a smile on my face!" "Thank you. I really needed that."

Basic Consumer Health Information for Caregivers, Including a Profile of Caregivers, Caregiving Responsibilities and Concerns, Tips for Specific Conditions, Care Environments, and the Effects of Caregiving Along with Facts about Legal Issues, Financial Information, and Future Planning, a Glossary, and a Listing of Additional Resources.