The Caregiver's Essential Handbook: More Than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life

by Sasha Carr and Sandra Choron

Book Overview

This is a compilation of the best advice for practical experienced caregivers; it's a handy, easy-to-use catalogue of useful tips, solutions and ideas designed to provide quick help for those in need.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071395199
• ISBN13: 9780071395199
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A Wealth of Useful Information

I am a legal aid hotline attorney who frequently assists seniors as well as the owner of an online medical supplies and equipment business. This well researched and comprehensive book is full of helpful suggestions and a many excellent resources. If you are caring for a senior you will find alot of great ideas in this book. Seniors may also want a copy for themselves.

A big help

Ordered this book from seeing it online. It was an easy read and I got a lot of tips from it (I started helping take care of my mother this year). Definately recommend.

An INVALUABLE resource

This is an extrememly insightful and eminently readable guide for the many of us who are struggling to care for our aging loved ones. As as clinical psychologist working with families and specializing in child therapy, I have been uncertain how to advise parents when they describe the challenges they face with raising their children while also caring for their own parents and aging relatives. Now, with The Caregiver's Essential Handbook, I have an excellent source of practical information and advice to offer overwhelmed families. The 1,200 tips are clearly organized and easy to locate. There are invaluable phone numbers and web sites listed in the Appendix. All in all, one can just pick up this book for a few moments and gain a lot of invaluable information.I am extrememly grateful that my colleague Sasha Carr and Sandra Choron have provided this wonderful resource. It will make a great difference in many families' lives.

A wonderful Informative Book!

This book is a compact, well written guide to helping those who care for seniors and seniors who care for themselves. It is short, simple, and well written. It is packed full of good advice and essential resources for seniors and those who help care for themThe book is divided into logical sections that deal with caregiver and senior issues. These issues are presented in simple bite sized pieces. They are easy to understand and easy to use. Most of the information is good advice for not only caregivers but all of us. Not only are the authors obviously experienced caregivers but they have inserted thoughtful anecdotes from people who are caregivers throughout the book. The authors are also quite obviously caring and concerned. One of their most salient points that they make over and over is that we will all be seniors at one point or another and we should look at the things we do from the point of view of the people who we are helping. This book is a must read for all of us. As the world population grows older, the advice in this book will become more and more topical for everyone.An excellent resource directory is presented at the back, packed with essential resources for seniors. These are great resources and highly useful to both seniors and caregivers.This is a terrific book and I highly recommend it to anyone who is a caregiver or a senior.

THE survival guide for caregivers

A tremendous lifesaver for caregivers... As a clinical psychologist specializing in geriatrics, I am frequently asked to recommend resources for desparate and overwhelmed caregivers who don't know how to handle the tremendous burden of aging loved ones, particularly those who are dementing. Anyone who works in gerontology or is a caregiver herself, knows that caregivers have precious little time or energy for research and reading. They want PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS and ADVICE delivered in a way they can understand. Until this book, there hasn't been anything I could strongly recommend that is 1) accessible; 2) practical; 3)professional; 4) concise; and 5) pleasurable to read. I am thrilled that my colleague Sasha Carr, a specialist in health and aging, and Sandra Choron have finally given caregivers around the world such an expert, yet practical, compilation of information and advice such as: 1) 20 specific "Good Outings" 2) If your senior always wants to wear the same outfit, buy duplicates 3) Buy "Thick It" to add to thin liquids if your senior finds swallowing thicker liquids easier (very common) 4) If your senior balks at having her hair washed because it's disturbing for her to get water in her eyes, put petroleum jelly around her hairline before washing her hairAll 1,200 tips are divided into common-sense categories, making it easy to locate the information you need. Needless to say, the book is also chock-full of relevant phone numbers and web sites in an Appendix, and also includes a helpful index. The Caregiver's Essential Handbook is just that, and has become the "go-to" guide that I now recommend to patients and caregivers. .