Books Every Caregiver Should Read

By Andy Niska | June 21, 2018 |

Becoming a family caregiver can make you feel like you’ve been thrown into deep water and it’s sink or swim. One way to overcome that feeling is by learning more about what it means to be a caregiver. There are many great books written about being a caregiver. There are also books written by people who have been in your shoes. If you’re looking for a way to learn about your new role as a caregiver, consider spending some time reading these books that every caregiver should read.

Caregiver in Spokane WA: Books Every Caregiver Should Read

The Caregiving Wife’s Handbook: Caring for Your Seriously Ill Husband, Caring for Yourself

By Diana B. Denholm

Denholm is a psychotherapist who has worked with women that acted as family caregivers to their husbands. Denholm herself also has experience as a caregiver. The book includes the profiles of six women and how being caregivers to their husbands affected their lives.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Caregivers

Edited by Joan Lunden and Amy Newmark

When you’re feeling alone and like no one understands what your life is like, reading this collection of stories about caregivers may help.

The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent

By Barry J. Jacobs

The chapters in this book each tell the story of a different family and how they handled situations that come up with caregiving, such as medical treatments, arguments with siblings, and marital trouble. The book also provides a list of resources for caregivers.

When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions

By Paula Span

Span is a journalist who was also a caregiver to her elderly father. To write the book, she interviewed other families in the same situation. Each of the families found solutions, though not always perfect ones, to the problems they encountered. The idea of the book is to show caregivers that not everything has to be perfect to be right.

You’d Better Not Die or I’ll Kill You: A Caregiver’s Survival Guide to Keeping You in Good Health and Good Spirits

By Jane Heller

Need to find the lighter side of caregiving? Heller has been described as the “Nora Ephron” of caregiving. In her book, Heller enlists the help of celebrity friends to and experts in caregiving to help her find the bright and humorous side of the 20 years she spent as a caregiver to her husband with Crohn’s disease.

If you or an aging loved one are considering caregiver services in Spokane, WA, please contact the friendly staff at Love at Home Senior Care, today. Call (509) 204-4088

Sources

https://www.strokesmart.org/caregiving-books

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-09-2012/books-for-caregivers.html

https://www.nextavenue.org/17-essential-books-family-caregivers/

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Andy Niska

Owner at Love In Home Senior Care

Andy has over 20+ years experience in the medical community and has a true compassion for seniors. With a degree in Health Care Administration, he developed a background in a variety of health care services that only comes from first hand experience. While working as a manager of a large clinic and as an account executive for medical suppliers. Andy has built valuable relationships with the medical community.

His role in Love In Home Senior Care is to educate people on what care choice is the best fit for the senior and their family while attempting to make this decision as stress-free as possible for everyone involved.

This decision making process should be smooth and stress free for everyone, including all family members and their loved ones. Having access to people with experience (like the team at Love In Home Senior Care) to assist you along the way can help this process. With an extensive background in health care, Andy has the experience needed to guide and direct your loved one to the choice that is the best fit.