Good Reads Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living By Liz O’Donnell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Kindle, print Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who’s caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called on to care for their parents. Working Daughter sparks the conversation we so desperately need to have about women and the workplace. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day and a shortage of caregivers predicted in the next few years, it’s time we talk about how family caregivers and their employers will face the impact of a rapidly aging society. There are plenty of books about managing career and children, but little advice on how to balance career and parents — along with children, marriages, and friendships. Working Daughter provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers. This book is for women who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges of eldercare, the choices they will need to make, the aspects of caregiving they can control, and that which they cannot. And finally, Working Daughter shows family caregivers how they can achieve the caregiver’s gain — the underreported but well-documented upside to caring for an aging parent. Caregiving While Keeping Your Job By Karen Owen-Lee Kindle, print Caregiving While Keeping Your Job focuses on employees
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caring for aging loved ones in declining health. The stress and hours spent in caregiving result in employees who are emotionally drained, late to work, and missing work altogether. Six out of 10 caregivers are full-time employees. Caregivers are caught between fear and anxiety for their loved one and the fear of getting fired from their job. Corporations need to address their lost revenue and productivity while the caregiver must address their stress and demands of keeping their job. Where do caregivers turn for help? What community resources are available? Caregiving While Keeping Your Job addresses: • The secrets to managing a parent’s finances, legal, and medical matters • How to determine how much leave time you’ll need to assess your senior’s condition and needs • Informative ways to conduct sensitive talks with senior family members • How to include other family members by creating a family action plan to care for your aging family member • How to plan for a future that will allow you to be a caregiver while staying employed Role Reversal: How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Aging Parents By Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW She Writes Press Kindle, print Designed to help caregivers understand how to cope with and overcome the overwhelming challenges that arise while caregiving for a loved one — especially an aging parent — Role Reversal is a comprehensive guide to navigating the enormous daily challenges faced by caregivers. In these pages, Waichler blends her personal experience caring for her beloved father with her 40 years of expertise as a patient advocate and clinical social worker. The result is a book offering invaluable information on topics ranging from estate planning to grief and anger to building a support network and finding the right level of care for your elderly parent.
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Soul of Caregiving: A Caregiver’s Guide to Healing and Transformation By Edward M. Smink, Ph.D. Soul of the Wounded Healer Kindle, print Who are the caregivers? We all are, for at the heart of being human is the capacity to care, to reach out to others, and to explore the relationships we build. The Soul of Caregiving is about us and how we, as caregivers, serve, even sacrifice, for those in need. Explore how we have the opportunities to partake in a kind of pilgrimage along the path of our experiences as caregivers. Who will be your guide on this journey? Unlike other pilgrims who have a guide assigned to them, you will soon discover it is your own soul guiding you. Professionally skilled as we may be to meet the needs of others, a fundamental core component of our busy lives as caregivers is the necessity to stop and rest. It is not a waste of time, but rather a luxury of time, to ponder, reflect, and grow from our experiences. This is not an easy endeavor in the midst of a whirlwind of activity. We, as caregivers, experience vulnerability, helplessness, fears, and pain over the traumatic events we experience because we care. We care about those whom we are called to serve. Compassion fatigue comes about because we care. The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver By Donna Thomson, Zachary White, and Foreword by Judy Woodruff Rowman & Littlefield Publishers With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the 21stcentury care experience. Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out, not one that hunts us down. Becoming a caregiver is one transformation that comes at us, requiring us to rethink everything we once knew. Everything changes: responsibilities, beliefs, hopes, expectations, and relationships. Caregiving is not just a role reserved for “saints” — eventually, everyone is drafted into
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