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This book is a companion to the PBS documentary Caring for Mom and Dad (May 2015) and Sally Hurme's ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers: A Guide to Making It Manageable.
List of contents
Chapter 1 - Your Caregiving Plan
Chapter 2 - Caring for You, the Caregiver
Chapter 3 - Your Caregiving Team
Chapter 4 - The Organized Caregiver: Tips for Staying Sane
Chapter 5 - Working Caregivers
Chapter 6 - Legal Matters
Chapter 7 - Managing Finances
Chapter 8 - Health and Healing
Chapter 9 - When Your Loved Ones Live at Home
Chapter 10 - When Your Loved Ones Live in a Facility
Chapter 11 - Crisis Management 101
Chapter 12 - Handling the End of Life
Chapter 13 - Life After Caregiving
Appendix A - Tips for Challenging Conversations
Appendix B - It Is Time to Stop Driving?
Appendix C - Hospital Survival Kit
Appendix D - Music and Caregiving
About the author
Amy Goyer has more than 30 years of experience in this field. She started her career as a music therapist, activities director, and administrator in adult day services centers and nursing homes. Later, she worked for the Ohio Department of Aging, monitoring home- and community-based programs serving older Americans and leading statewide senior volunteer and intergenerational initiatives. She then joined the staff of AARP, heading up its intergenerational efforts and its program supporting grandparent caregivers. Now she is an aging and families author and consultant, specializing in caregiving, grandparenting, and multigenerational relationships
and issues. A passionate champion for caregivers, she has been one her entire adult life, first for her grandparents and then for her sisters and parents. She serves as AARP’s family and caregiving expert (www .aarp .org /amygoyer), a role that includes talking to the media and live audiences, writing columns and a blog, and creating online videos (www .aarp .org / takingcare) that document her personal caregiving journey and provide actionable tips for families and caregivers.
Learn more about Amy’s work at www .amygoyer .com. Connect with her on Twitter at @amygoyer and on Facebook at AmyGoyer1.
Summary
A staggering 42 million Americans, one in four adults, face the challenges of caring for an adult friend or relative. Although caregiving can be a richly rewarding and joyful experience, the role comes with enormous responsibilities and pressures. AARP's gentle guide provides practical resources and tips that are easy to find when you need them, whether you're caregiving day to day, planning for future needs, or in the middle of a crisis. Equally important, this book helps you care for the caregiver, you, before, during, and after caregiving.
Author Amy Goyer, an expert in aging and families, offers insight, inspiration, and poignant stories and experiences of caregivers, including her own as a live-in caregiver for her parents.
This book is a companion to the PBS documentary Caring for Mom and Dad (May 2015) and Sally Hurme's ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers: A Guide to Making It Manageable.
