So very helpful---and comforting! There is HOPE!

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	• The Reluctant Caregivers: Learning to Care for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Anne Hendershott Bergin & Garvey, 2000 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Informative and Personal

Anne Hendershott, a professor who teaches about the sociology of aging, found herself unprepared for the challenge of caring for a mother-in-law with Alzheimer's. Combining the personal experience of a caregiver, who had a family and career as well, with the knowledge of a professional, this book can be very helpful to others who reluctantly find themselves in the role of caregiver. Practical information and tips from lessons learned in that role are shared along with this personal caregiving journey. A helpful appendix includes facts about organizations and selected Web sites, and a biblographic essay shares information about helpful books....

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So very helpful---and comforting! There is HOPE!

Anne Hendershott has offered a lifeline to all those who either care for, or know anyone associated with, this horrible disease! She gives perspective to the pain by affirming how normal are all of the feelings you have! Anne H. also gives a spiritual, up-lifting, insight how the work--the real work--loving and caring for the loved one with Alzheimer's is! One subtitle sums it up well --- "caring-giving, affirming the soul!" Anne H. sure has mine! And she will for you too if you read her book!

Although Hendershott has spent many years teaching and writing about the sociological aspects of aging, she writes that "none of this could have prepared me for the overwhelming challenge of caring for my own mother-in-law in my home." She introduces baby boomers as the unexpected caregivers of the coming decades. The process of family denial about symptoms, work-family conflict, and the unique problems of children of caregivers are explored in an effort to find solutions to the caregiving challenge. Social science research is made accessible and is coupled with anecdotal information gleaned from interactions with other caregivers and personal experience. Throughout the book, Hendershott shows family caregivers that by gaining insight into their motivations for caregiving and by drawing from family support and help from the community, they can move beyond maladaptive caregiving coping styles, to a rewarding reality-based caregiving experience.

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