PAMELA CAREY

In 2009 Barking Cat Books published Pamela’s first work of nonfiction titled, Minor League Mom: A Mother’s Journey through the Red Sox Farm Teams, Pam’s story during her two sons’ years playing professional baseball, without ever reaching the big leagues. In 2014, Barking Cat Books published Elderly Parents with All Their Marbles: A Survival Guide for the Kids, winner of the Gold Medal in 2015 from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. Her third work of nonfiction appeared in 2018 titled, Surviving Your Dream Vacation: 75 Rules to Keep Your Companion Talking to You, based on Pam’s travels around the world. In Pam’s former lives, she was a high school English teacher and an interior designer. When not reading, writing, or traveling, Pam can be found on a tennis court.

Elderly Parents With All Their Marbles A Survival Guide for the Kids

If you’re not already engaged in dealing with the needs of elderly parents, you will be soon. And while you’ll do it gladly, you’ll also do it with a range of emotions as broad as any you’ve ever experienced, tapping into skills you didn’t know you had and ending up satisfied but exhausted. Pamela Carey has written a book in an effort to prepare you for what’s to come.

With wit and humor Pamela describes the journey all of us will experience who have elderly parents in good health. She begins with the move to bring her parents closer geographically, the downsizing and attempt to replicate the “homestead” they left, and goes on to describe their eating and recreational habits, their long-delayed medical issues, and their demise in their nineties. Through laughter and tears, Pamela re-creates her adventures during her parents’ last ten years. Above all, this book should be held close as a resource for its glossary of necessary definitions, links, and explanations of essential things any caregiver should know. It is a comfort through the difficult process, as well as a validation of feelings that inevitably occur.