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A VERY HELPFUL BOOK!
This book really helped me understand the aging process, hold onto my empathy and compassion, balance my life better (I was starting to lose myself), and gave me a sense of calm because I have the knowledge of how to manage it all so much better. You'll gain so much insight from this book. My entire family noticed the difference in my attitude after I read it, calmed me down so much and gave me specifics of how to cope. "Elder Rage" is the other book I recommend for coping with aging parents, particularly if you have one who is real difficult to manage.

As Parents Age
Book is aimed at creating an understanding of the psychological impact to aging parent and family unit.Provides insight into how the family must act together and what pitfalls to avoid.Works on preserving the dignityof the parent, and finding ways to help the parent and still allow familymembers to maintain lives of their own.

A "must read" for every adult child with aging parents.
This book should be read by every adult child with a healthy parent over seventy. How do you know when a parent needs help? When it's time for a nursing home, how do you find a quality facility?Joseph Ilardoprovidesall of the guidance needed to help parents through the stages of needingassistance at home, moving into an institution , and preparing for the endof life. Beyond the specific practical advice, the book explains thepsychological processes involved for the aging parent and for the adultchild. I have just assisted my parents with moving my ailing father to anursing home. As a result of my using this book,my father made thetransition to a quality facility with good will, and the entire family wasinvolved in a positive, supportive fashion. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging - General    2. Aging parents    3. Care    4. Developmental - General    5. Eldercare    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Family relationships    9. Family/Marriage    10. Parenting - Parent & Adult Child    11. Psychology    12. United States    13. Parenthood    14. Self-Help / Aging   

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Helps consumers make the best choices for long-term care.
Helps consumers make the best choices for long-term care, from protecting assets to understanding Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aged    2. Aging - General    3. Consumer Behavior - Consumer Guides    4. Eldercare    5. Evaluation    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Family/Marriage    9. Finance    10. Long-term care    11. Long-term care of the sick    12. Personal Finance - General    13. Sociology - Marriage & Family   

Subjects:  1. Eldercare    2. Evaluation    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health Care Issues    5. Health/Fitness    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing Home Care    8. Nursing homes    9. United States   

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Surprisingly Helpful
Now that I'm on my second go-round as a caregiver for a parent, I thought I knew the ropes fairly well.So I wasn't expecting much new information from this book.
Excellent guide for family caregivers
This book is a complete reference for family caregivers.Editor, Beth Witrogen McLeod, founder of the National Family Caregivers Association, presents an excellent guide for family caregivers.Rosalynn Carter has written a forward highly recommending the book to "family caregivers and those who support them".
WHEN THE TIME COMES
This book is absolutely necessary when the time comes to think about your parents, and their aging, and what to do just in case.Read more

Subjects:  1. Caregivers    2. Caregiving    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Eldercare    5. Family & Relationships    6. Family/Marriage    7. Home care services    8. Home health aides    9. Reference    10. Health & Fitness / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Activities of Daily Living    2. Aging    3. Eldercare    4. General    5. Gerontology    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Health Policy    8. Medical care    9. Older people    10. Politics - Current Events    11. Public Affairs & Administration    12. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    13. Social Science    14. Sociology    15. Sociology - General    16. United States    17. Care of the elderly    18. Health systems & services    19. Social Science / Sociology / General    20. USA   

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Excellent Survival Guide!
This book helped me so much feel not so alone with the enormous strain I am going thorugh with my parents, who are both starting to have odd behaviors. I just sobbed at all I was going through until I read this book. Now I have some real tools, techniques, understanding, and I know how to get back to compassion when I start to lose it. Take this book with you to a support group, as I found that being around others helped me so much. Another MUST read that will help you cope is "Elder Rage" which is full of practical advice too, delivered with so much humor it is a fun read that you can't put down. Two wonderful books of hope.

Best I've read
This book is an excellent resource for anyone facing the challenges of caring for a loved one who needs long term support.The book contains cases which describe the experiences of several prototype situations andthe emotions that those involved deal with on a day to day basis.Thisbook highlights the fact that caregiving is a difficult task and that theemotions caregivers feel are common and normal.The book exoneratescaregives who feel guilty for the difficulties that they face and providesthe support that we need to carry on.A must read ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aged    2. Caregivers    3. Caregiving    4. Chronically ill    5. Eldercare    6. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health Care Issues    9. Health/Fitness    10. Home care    11. Older people    12. Psychological aspects    13. Fitness & diet    14. Home nursing & caring   

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*HowtomaintainBalance (SANITY) asaCaregiver*
The author of "Mosaic Moon" - Frances H. Kakugawa - is a caring, empathetic woman who became the leader of a group of Alzheimer's caretakers in Hawaii. What a productive work she did and continues to expand!
The title of my review is:"Naked Hearts & Feelings"
Kudos to Frances H. Kakugawa. She has done the near impossible. She has drawn caregivers into an environment so filled with trust that they found the courage to be truthful about caregiving. Caregivers, as the contributing authors of MOSAIC MOON Caregiving Through Poetry, bear witness to some poignant facts including... From Darkness to Light; the caregivers' experience
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Subjects:  1. Patients    2. Eldercare    3. Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)    4. Diet / Health / Fitness    5. Family/Marriage    6. Family & Relationships    7. Anthologies (multiple authors)    8. Caregiving    9. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -    10. Poetry    11. Alzheimer's disease    12. Family Relationships    13. Caregivers' writings, American    14. Care    15. Hawaii   

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A MUST READ BOOK FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING
This is it folks!Probably one of the most important books I have ever read.It took me, as the reader, full circle from my childhood all the way through to my current relationship with my aging parents, in a matter of hours.I could not and would not put this book down.It wouldn't let me.Never have I read anything on the issue of children dealing with their aging parents that has so thoroughly covered every human emotion. It is gut-wrenching and inspiring at the same time.Kudos to Roberta Satow for having the desire and the ability to write about a topic that is so controversial and so very necessary.This book pushed all of my buttons and made me rethink every aspect of my relationship with my parents and my own children.This subject cannot be talked about or written about enough.I took on every role while engrossed in this book.I was child, sibling, parent and aging parent all at the same time.I was hit emotionally from every angle.When the book was finished I was literally angry that there weren't more pages.I can't stop thinking about or talking about this book.Now that is the sign of a great book! Please tell me there will be more where this came from!

Alot of empathy, no concrete solutions
The interviews in this book were very enlightening, giving me some new insights into the situations that I, and apparently many others, are going through with aging parents. I did sympathise with many of the adults, and I guess the only shortcoming of the book was that I expected it to provide me with solutions. I realize that may be impossible to receive from a book, but I do think I gained a lot by the empathy I felt to others who deal with the same insolvable and sometimes intolerable situations. I would recommmend this book to those just beginning to feel the pull to help their parents so that some strategies may be of help in the earliest stages before patterns are set.

Right On.
The introduction to this book left me breathless - the author could have been looking over my shoulder at my own interaction with my mother, and dealing with the welter of emotions that come out of that relationship. I very much appreciate the author's disclosure of her own situation - I think this gives an immediacy that the reader can relate with. Anyone in a care-giving situation with their parents' should read this book, no matter what their relationship with their parents was like. I plan to recommend it to everyone I know, because they will need this kind of information sooner or later. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult children of aging parent    2. Adult children of aging parents    3. Aging parents    4. Care    5. Caregiving    6. Eldercare    7. Family    8. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    9. Intergenerational relations    10. Parenting - Parent & Adult Child    11. Personal Growth - General    12. Self-Help    13. Social Gerontology    14. United States    15. Family & Relationships / Abuse / Elder Abuse   

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Great book

Jacqueline- Memories are forever
This book is AMAZAING!
Not Only For One's Parents
Let me second the enthusiasm for Burdick's delightful book, which indeed will bring back some haunting images from even the most caved-in mind.It is not, however, solely geared for family members and I would encourage all to buy a copy of this book, you do not need to have a mother or father with Alzheimer's, it is perfect for reading along with any friends of yours, even younger people, who are troubled by memory challenges in the Alzheimer's range.For example, I took this book with me on my visit to the local elderhostel near my home, offering to share it with anyone who would like to read a good book, and once we were snuggled up on a park bench overlooking a pool swimming with koi, the "two lap" approach found me reading aloud to a white male stranger who might have been in his early 80s, a dignified man whose clothes were impeccable, if somewhat out of style, and obviously he had memory problems as he could not tell me his name.We sat down and began to pore through the book, with its lovely illustrations--not childlike, just very clear and nostalgic.After a few pages he told me that he had been in the Normandy Invasion!There are other suggestions in the book, tips on how to say things in ways which don't threaten the memory-challenged adult, and to my astonishment the man was telling me about a friend of his who had drowned in the surf on Omaha Beach, and he (my new friend) had climbed to safety on the back of his dead buddy.When we got to the part about his favorite song, he began to sing, "My Buddy," a song which I did not know but he sang it so loudly that others in the park turned their heads and a few chimed in.
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Subjects:  1. Alzheimer's disease    2. Caregiving    3. Eldercare    4. Home Care    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Oral reading    8. Popular works    9. Care of the elderly    10. Coping with illness   

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You'll laugh, you'll cry
Most memorable for its humorous recounting of Smith and his parents' tug-of-war moments, this touching remembrance transports its readers onto the bittersweet emotional rollercoaster of caring for the elderly without the over-sentimentality that so often accompanies such accounts. Well done! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1939-    2. Biography    3. Care    4. Caregivers    5. Caregiving    6. Dementia    7. Diet / Health / Fitness    8. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    9. Eldercare    10. Health & Fitness    11. Health Care Issues    12. Health/Fitness    13. Older people    14. Patients    15. Smith, L. B.,    16. United States    17. Medical / Caregiving   

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Book offers tips for coping
Small enough to tuck in one's pocket, this book can be pulled out when a friend is needed. A friend who will understand the demands as well as the joys of caregiving. This book will make a wonderful gift for a friend
This book will make a wonderful gift for a friend or loved one caring for an AD patient at home. It offers a daily dose of much-needed encouragement. Roche puts great emphasis on the caregiver nurturing his or her ownphysical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The practical daily tipsoffer suggestions to help lighten the load.

Each page provides a practical caregiving tip.
This useful book is written for caregivers who care for dementia loved ones at home; many professional caregivers are also finding the book helpful and insightful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases - Alzheimer's & Dementia    3. Eldercare    4. Health/Fitness   

Subjects:  1. Caregiving    2. Eldercare    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Care of the elderly    5. Coping with illness   

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Informative and enlightening
I have attended several Gentlecare seminars and also have this book.Moyra Jones does a fantastic job of explaining the disease and offers ways of improving care and quality of life of people with Alzheimers. Moyra Jones shares the details a caregiver searches for.
From basic, to technical...All you desparately need to know to help guide your loved one and yourself through the maze of Alzhiemer's. Educate yourself a step further than any other book has dared to go. You cannotspare your loved one the grief of losing themselves...but you can guidethem through it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alzheimer's Disease    2. Care    3. Caregiving    4. Consumer Health    5. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    6. Eldercare    7. Family relationships    8. Healing    9. Health & Fitness    10. Health/Fitness    11. Home Nursing    12. Neurology - General    13. Patients    14. Rehabilitation   

Subjects:  1. Caregiving    2. Consumer Health    3. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    4. Diseases - Respiratory    5. Eldercare    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Medicine    9. Gerontology    10. Family    11. Health   

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Is your retirement heading in the right direction?
I LOVED it.This is a must read for anyone who wants to enjoy retiremnent.It covers so many little things we should do and the powerful compass system.

Is your retirement heading in the right direction?
Great book! Easy read! Helped me sort through my retirement options and mistakes alot of people make.I actually understood what he was talking about.Iunderstand the whole putting your money into legs retirement strategy and it makes sense. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Eldercare    4. Family & Relationships    5. Family/Marriage    6. General    7. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management   

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Aging - General    3. Eldercare    4. Gerontology    5. Health/Fitness    6. Old age    7. Older people    8. Social Gerontology    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Health & Fitness / General    13. Social Science / Gerontology   

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A Valuable and Practical Guide
This handbook is a valuable resource for anyone faced with the daunting task of choosing care for an elderly family member. The vast majority of readers most likely have found themselves thrust into an emergency situation with a loved one who needs immediate care. Navigating the uncharted waters of eldercare options can quickly become overwhelming and stressful.
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Subjects:  1. Aging - General    2. Consumer education    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Eldercare    5. Family & Relationships    6. Family/Marriage    7. Gerontology    8. Health Care Issues    9. Nursing - Home & Community Care    10. Nursing Home Care    11. Nursing homes   

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Highly Recommended
A neighbor lent me this book from her professional library when I was in the process of placing my parent into assisted living/nursing home. My parent ranks in the author's "difficult parents" category. The book is an intimate, therapeutic, elegantly written life-safer. It is especially directed at daughters but of course it is very helpful to sons and really to anyone at all who is left to take care of critical problems of the elderly as they transition out of health and often into depression on the road towards death. It illustrates compassion towards the elderly, even those so impossible that they could live no other way but by making life miserable for their children and all others around them. Even more, it helps the child or caretaker keep balanced and focused on getting out of the guilt, anger, guilt cycle. It addresses those who work endlessly to make transitions easier for others, whether from love, duty, obligation, guilt, or mixed motivations. Finally, the best one can do is good enough.

Caring Without Caving
For those struggling to assist their aging parents, while managing a career and family of their own, Vivian Greenberg's book is a treasure. Through her many years of real life experience, it becomes clear in thesepages that Greenberg really understands the dynamics of older parents andtheir adult children.The author displays a balanced point of view,compassion for older adults and understanding for their children.Thesituations Greenberg describes are real and her advice is solid.Heradvice to adult children: Don't condescend to your parents, regardless oftheir changing needs--but don't cave in either.You have a right to yourown life, your own space, your own needs.For those who feel they aregetting lost in the daily demands of elder caregiving, this book is abreath of fresh air.

Caring Without Caving
For those struggling to assist their aging parents, while managing a career and family of their own, Vivian Greenberg's book is a treasure. Through her many years of real life experience, it becomes clear in thesepages that Greenberg really understands the dynamics of older parents andtheir adult children.The author displays a balanced point of view,compassion for older adults and understanding for their children.Thesituations Greenberg describes are real and her advice is solid.Heradvice to adult children: Don't condescend to your parents, regardless oftheir changing needs--but don't cave in either.You have a right to yourown life, your own space, your own needs.For those who feel they aregetting lost in the daily demands of elder caregiving, this book is abreath of fresh air. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult children of aging parents    2. Aging - General    3. Aging parents    4. Care    5. Caregivers    6. Eldercare    7. Family & Relationships    8. Family relationships    9. Family/Marriage    10. General    11. Interpersonal Relations    12. Parent & Adult Child    13. Parent And Child    14. Psychology    15. Social Gerontology    16. United States    17. Care of the elderly    18. Coping with old age    19. Marriage, family & other relationships   

Subjects:  1. Eldercare    2. Family & Relationships    3. Family/Marriage    4. Gerontology    5. Health Care Delivery    6. Housing    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Older people   

Subjects:  1. Care    2. Caregivers    3. Caregiving    4. Eldercare    5. Health Care Delivery    6. Health Services for the Aged    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Nursing - Gerontology    10. Older people    11. Services for