Caregiver Resource Links - Books, Articles and DVD's

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1. A Loving Approach to Dementia Care by Laura Wayman
   This book is a go-to guide for both family caregivers and professional caregivers. Laura Wayman is a keynote speaker and offers training classes to caregivers.
   
2. Alzheimer's and Incontinence by Healing Well
   An article by by Beverly Bigtree Murphy, MS, CRC, ElderCare Online
   
3. Beth Witrogen - Speaker - Author
   Beth Witrogen is a journalist, author, speaker, and consultant on spirituality and aging, caregiving, and midlife renewal.
   
4. Boomers Forever
   Articles on health, finance, lifestyles, restaurants, travel, technology, B2B and more.
   
5. Caregiver's Handbook
   This caregiver's handbook was created with the goal to give caregiver's an idea of what may lay ahead, but most importantly, a reality check on the situation at hand.
   
6. Caregivers- A six-part series by The SF Examiner
   The Examiner explores the trials and triumphs of children facing the task of caring for an aging parent.
   
7. CaregiverVillage.com
   Caregiver Village is a virtual community that is filled with family caregivers caring for people with all kinds of problems. The hard work of family caregivers is celebrated. Tips, suggestions and tools to reduce the stress of caregiving abound in the Village. Even more importantly, caregivers share their stories through journaling and in group discussions, giving each other help with problems, support and encouragement. If you’re like a lot of family caregivers you might be feeling stressed, overworked, overscheduled, exhausted and lonely. You might feel like you’re all alone, doing a job that’s just too big, with no one cheering you on. You’re probably getting a lot of second-guessing but not much support from your family. You might be feeling like it’s just too hard. Have you ever done something really, really hard – for fun? Have you trained for a marathon, a century bike ride, a hike up a mountain? If you’ve ever done this you probably remember feeling exhausted many times during training and the event. BUT – here’s the big difference – you were doing it by choice. You were in control. Imagine the difference between running a marathon by choice and running 26 miles because someone is forcing you to do it. The big difference is in how you experience the stress. Running a marathon – or doing anything else that’s really, really challenging – is stressful. But when you do it by choice - when you’re in control - it makes all the difference in the world. Your body interprets the stress as a good thing. You feel exhausted – but like you’ve achieved something BIG. Cara, the care giver on the Caregiver Village website If you’re doing something this challenging because you feel forced to do it the negative stress can make you sick. You’re at risk for all kinds of illness, including stroke and early death, just from the negative stress. The work of a caregiver is hard. It’s exhausting much of the time. You don’t earn a medal for doing it – you should, by the way – but you’re also doing something that’s an even greater achievement than completing a marathon. You’re giving of yourself: your time, your energy, your work. And you’re doing it selflessly.
   
8. Caregiver’s Home Companion
   A community for caregivers, which includes a resource directory, articles and information on caregiving topics, weekly columns by experts and an online forum for connecting with other caregivers
   
9. Caring Right at Home
   This site provides information, advice and support for adult caregiving. They have articles and resources to assist family caregivers and healthcare professionals who want information about home care services.
   
10. Caring Today
    Caring Today provides practical advice and knowledge for family caregivers. They offer expertise, understanding and answers, delivering valuable and helpful information on relieving day to day stress, support for caregivers, resources and answers to questions.
    
11. Cathie Borrie – author, international speaker and Alzheimer's caregiver
    An investigation into the mysteries of the mind. This is a narrative for everyone interested in the mind and how it shapes our perception of “reality” both in and outside of the dementia experience.
    
12. Desperate Caregivers of Aging Parents
    Desperate Caregivers of Aging Parents blog (Inside Aging Parent Care) provide insights, personal stories, links to books concerning care giving, discussions on topics such as end of life, caregiver attitude, caregiver confusion, coping with dying and important and helpful caregiver resources. The blog is the creation of Carol Leavenworth, William Shanks and Judi Leavenworth.
    
13. Disability Scoop
    Disability Scoop is the first and only national news organization serving the developmental disability community including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and intellectual disability, among others.
    
14. eCare Diary
    eCareDiary.com helps you organize with a free online calendar to help you organize appointments, medication schedules, legal documents and all your care scheduling needs, a set of online tools designed to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy amongst family members and other caregivers and a Search Engine to find a list of certified care services in your local area. Blogs and articles on caregiving are available.
    
15. Elder Rage
    Elder Rage, or Take My Father-Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents," by Jacqueline Marcell. A riveting, often humorous, true story and self-help book, with solutions for dealing with an unsympathetic medical system and effective medical and behavioral management.
    
16. ElderCare Online
    They provide an online community where supportive peers and professionals help you improve the quality of life for yourself and your elder whether you are caring for a spouse, parent, relative or neighbor.
    
17. Eldr Magazine
    ELDR brings an enlightened, entertaining and sometimes edgy approach to aging through its reviews, articles and interviews, dynamic photography and artwork. They feature regular stories on grandparenting, caregiving, and staying mentally sharp, among others. ELDR offers fresh viewpoints on social issues and new ideas on health, fitness, finances and activism.
    
18. FiftyandFurthermore.com
    if you’ve wised up with time but haven’t lost your edge, if you’re smart, sexy, and savvy (and sometimes maybe a little confused) FiftyandFurthermore.com is for you.
    
19. Health and Age
    The cancer news and article centers offer current information and resources about a variety of different cancer types, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, and many more.
    
20. John Hopkins Memory Health Alert
    Do you or a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia? On this website you can browse the most recent articles on Alzheimer's.
    
21. Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s by Joanne Koenig Coste
    Learning to Speak Alzheimer's by national expert Joanne Koenig Coste, for readers who want to learn how to confront the challenges of daily life in the context of Alzheimer's disease. This book provides tips on everyday living, as well as advice for dealing with emotional issues and learning to communicate effectively with Alzheimer's patients.
    
22. MetLife "Aging in Place" Workbook
    This workbook gives helpful information about how to stay in your home as you age.
    
23. MidLife Bloggers
    MidLifeBloggers offers provocative posts (prose, poetry and visual arts) on issues experienced in this period in our lives .
    
24. Minding Our Elders
    Carol Bradley Bursack's book, "Minding our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories", is a reminder you aren't alone. The book was written to support the work of family caregivers. Her website and Minding Our Elders BLOG give caregivers further understanding of the caregiver role.
    
25. National Caregivers Library
    An online collection of articles, checklists, forms and links to information on caregiving and caregiving resources
    
26. Negotiate Anything!
    Negotiate Anything! shares secrets about making companies treat you fairly when they don't deliver.  The authors share their  learning and show you how they've saved over $30,000 using a simple, pragmatic process.  They provide a 100% money back guarantee if you don't save at least two times the cost of the book in the first year alone.  265 pages - soft cover. $19.95. Call 800-985-1353 to order.
    
27. Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence
    From a 'reviewer' on Amazon... Gail Sheehy's "Passages" is really three different books. One part of the book is a memoir of her experience caring for her husband Clay Felker during his long physical decline. As another reviewer Sheila wrote, "Passages is written by someone with the money and resources to do whatever needs to be done." Sheehy's personal narrative is set in delicate italic type and is the story of how she used the privilege and celebrity of both her and her husband to get him decent care. They had access to famous doctors eager to be associated with them, along with hypnotists, nutritionists, acupuncturists, personal yoga instructors, psychotherapists and a full time housekeeper. When things got too stressful for her, Sheehy would go to a spa for rejuvenation. Sheehy is telling the truth about her own life, but she treats her privilege as a norm. You can buy it used on Amazon for as little as $2.16.
    
28. Retirement Living Information Center
    RLIC is a resource designed to assist individuals in planning and making decisions about their retirement. They provide access to reports on places to retire, state tax information and guides to state aging agencies, an online newsletter, books and online publications, plus much more.
    
29. SLEEP
    SLEEP is a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society. The first journal to provide comprehensive coverage of sleep and sleep disorders.
    
30. The Alzheimer's Reading Room
    The site focuses on Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's caregiving. They offer solutions to issues real world problems, such as bad or mean spirited behavior, wandering, urinary tract infections, incontinence, memory care, and what to expect as the disease progresses.
    
31. The Caregivers Voice
    The independent voice for family and professional caregivers of adults with cognitive impairment or dementia caused by Alzheimer’s, stroke, related illness, or trauma. The Caregiver’s Voice brings hope and strength to caregivers through knowledge, support, and humor. The mission of The Caregivers Voice is to illuminate the caregiving journey while giving voice to the millions of caregivers worldwide who endure unimaginable sacrifices to provide quality care for loved ones. The Caregiver’s Voice is the independent voice for family and professional caregivers of adults with brain impairment or dementia caused by Alzheimer’s, stroke, related illnesses, or trauma.
    
32. The Intentional Caregiver
    The Intentional Caregiver site provides support for caregivers of aging loved ones. Shelley Webb, RN offers caregiver services, products, a blog and resources. She has more than 30 years of service as a Registered Nurse, RN Case Manager, Geriatric Care Manager and caregiver to her father, she has “been there and done that” both personally and professionally. An “overnight” caregiver to her father, her priorities instantly changed and so did her workplace. As “The Intentional Caregiver” and President of The Eldercare Support Groups, Shelley and her network of experts have become the definitive source for educational materials, encouragement and successful strategies to enable the caregiver to create an easier, less stressful and even more rewarding role. Currently a consultant, coach and advisor to caregivers world-wide, she is also a volunteer advocacy ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Association, a panel expert at ShareCare.com (a new online health and wellness platform created by Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Jeff Arnold – founder of WebMD), as well as a speaker, and an expert writer for several on-line “boomer”, aging and caregiving resources.
    
33. Through the Seasons: An Activity Book for Memory-Challenged Adults and Caregivers
    A large-format picture book with discussion topics and activities to elicit memories and encourage new positive associations for memory-challenged persons across a wide range of cognitive function. Resource section and instructions included for family and prof. caregivers. by Cynthia R. Green, Joan Beloff
    
34. WebMD- Alzheimer's
    Whether you have Alzheimer's or are an Alzheimer's caregiver, you need information and support. It's here -- along with links to articles about Alzheimer's causes, symptoms, tests, and treatment.
    
35. Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement