Who Cares: A Loving Guide for Caregivers - Softcover

Marrella, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970844484 ISBN 13: 9780970844484

Publisher: DC PRESS, 2002

Synopsis

Here is a guidebook...a journal...a diary...that could save your life and provide vital life-enhancing information about you for your future caregivers. Here is your means to influence what your future caregivers will know about you and how they can interact with you.

One day most of us will find ourselves in need of some form of caregiving. Here is a unique book that provides you (the reader) with an opportunity to lay out all of the critical information you feel a future caregiver might find useful in providing for your care. From your favorite brand of toothpaste to your feelings on use of life support, this "journal" can be your way of enabling future caregivers to know you in ways they never could.

We may remain in our own homes or find ourselves in a nursing home, an assisted living center, a retirement community, a hospice, a hospital, one of our children's homes, or some other living arrangement. Whether your future caregivers are adult children, siblings, close relatives or friends, or complete strangers, there is a tremendous amount of information about you that most people don't know. Within the pages of this book are hundreds upon hundreds of topics that you can write responses to and increase the potential for better care from those that will serve you and your needs. What ever the situation, the time will most likely come when we will be looked after -- cared for -- by others.

In one compact guidebook you can share your thoughts on:

* favorite foods

* music you enjoy (and don't)

* medications that need to be taken daily

* medical conditions that could prove life-threatening

* your educational background

* your family tree

* clothes that you like to wear -- and when

* your feelings about death and your funeral

* and hundreds of other important things that could make your life more enjoyable -- and that could even save your life!

Give your future caregivers the gift of "knowledge" -- knowledge about you! This is perfect for everyone who can appreciate the importance of "information" and how critical information can be in providing the best form of caregiving in your own future.

About this title

About the Author

Dee Marrella has experienced life as a military wife and a corporate wife. She has been able to see much of the world and has experienced many varied cultures. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Dee spent twenty plus years in the field of education in both Europe and the United States. Experiencing these different cultures afforded her the opportunity to observe vast differences in the ways caregivers interact with older individuals within societies.

In 1994 it was medically necessary for Dee's mother to enter a nursing hoe. Dee's constant presence at the home, watching so many caregivers deal with pain, love and guilt gave her the inspiration to create "Who Cares."

Dee resides in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania with her husband Len. They are proud parents of three grown daughters who have given them seven grandchildren.

Review

"...wonderful book...an opportunity to interact with those who will one day be your caregivers. An important gift for yourself." -- Mark Victor Hansen , Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

"We certainly recommend this book for friends, caregiver classes, professional contacts, family and clients cognitively aware enough to complete it." -- Carolyn Whitman, MS, RN, GCM Journal (National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers)

"Well thought-out...deeper insights into who [one] is and [their] wants...giving caregivers a greater sense of [their] wishes." -- Wendy H. Sheinberg, Esq., NAELA News (National Association of Elder Law Attorneys)

Edition details

• Publisher: DC PRESS
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0970844484
• ISBN 13: 9780970844484
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 246