HomeBased Eldercare Stories Strategies for Caregivers edition by Marcia Washburn Kevin Swanson Religion Spirituality eBooks
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What shall we do about Mother? Most of us haven't thought much about caring for our parents--they have always been the ones who cared for us. But now Dad's health is failing. Mom's memory is slipping. How can we best show honor for our aging parents? Home-Based Eldercare is a Caregiver's Bootcamp of stories and strategies for those who wonder whether they will be able to care for their loved ones.
Marcia Washburn writes with transparency about the joys and challenges of caring for adult relatives in her home over the years. Dispelling the myth that institutional care is the best, or even the only option, she encourages adult children to consider the blessing of providing care for their aging parents, whether in the parents' home or in their own.
Using practical illustrations, Marcia gives advice about legal issues, emotional and spiritual care, personal caregiving, Alzheimer's care, and much more. Using warm and sometimes humorous stories, she weaves in tips to make the caregiver's job easier. Especially valuable are the reminders to consider the whole person, not to simply address the physical and medical aspects of caregiving.
Caregivers will find much to encourage them in this book including an appendix of essays, poems, and Scripture verses just for them. An appendix of additional resources for caregivers enhances the value of the book. Included are suggestions for how friends, family members, and churches can support caregivers and those they serve. Caregivers are reminded that they, too, have a Caregiver who knows and addresses their needs.
Other appendices include instructions for preparing a family notebook of vital information, assembling an emergency bag, and online personal profile forms.
Marcia calls herself an "unlikely caregiver" who, like most caregivers, was suddenly thrust into caregiving without any prior training. She writes from the perspective of a person who shares what she has learned on-the-job and from her personal research. Over the years she has cared for several adults in her home including a blind diabetic aunt, a mildly-retarded young man, her father-in-law, and her mother. She has cared for her mother-in-law, an Alzheimer's patient, since 2012.
Caregivers will find much to encourage them in this book including an Appendix of Scripture verses, essays, and poems just for them.
HomeBased Eldercare Stories Strategies for Caregivers edition by Marcia Washburn Kevin Swanson Religion Spirituality eBooks
Marcia Washburn has been known in homeschooling circles for a long time as she has authored a number of very insightful and practical books to encourage homeschooling parents to provide their children with a top-notch education. Now with her children grown, she has turned her focus to helping others do has she has successfully done during the past decade - care for aging parents in a home situation. Marcia has provided care for both her mother, who died after a long illness, and now cares for her mother-in-law who suffers from dementia. Marcia's loving kindness is matched with her excellent organization and communication skills, making this book very helpful and practical for the younger generation to care for the older generation following Biblical principles. She shares her life transparently and with humor, but also gets to the nitty-gritty of caring daily for bodies that are failing, and minds that aren't what they once were. This is a very good book for adult siblings to read and determine together what will be the best way to care for their beloved parents, while keeping them at home, instead of moving them to an institution permanently. Home-based elder has been happening for thousands of years, but for some reason 'enlightened' Americans have moved away from it. Be inspired that you and your family can do this, and do this well, and more importantly enjoy this special season in a multi-generational household.Product details
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HomeBased Eldercare Stories Strategies for Caregivers edition by Marcia Washburn Kevin Swanson Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
As a caregiver for my husband, who is in late stage Alzheimer's, I was thrilled to get this book as I have always valued Marcia's insight, humor and practical approach whever I have seen her face challenges. I found the book to be extremely helpful and know our 10 children would truly be encouraged by the tips and anecdotes and poems and remarkable information gathered across a wide spectrum of sources to help those of us who have chosen to make this long, long goodbye with our loved ones. A must read. One point she made that particularly resonated with me was a short comment in chapter 7 where she observes that nothing stays the same, just when you think you have a plan...Thanks, Marcia for writing out of your busy life experience to reach and help so many others.
Great book and quick read to encourage the caregiver. Many practical tips and encouraging stories. Caregivers face many trials with very little training. This will provide some help from beginning to end of caring for your loved one in your home.
(I was given this book by the author and asked to write a review.)
This book will be an invaluable resource and encouragement to anyone embarking on the journey of home eldercare. Marcia has cared for both a mentally whole parent and for one who suffers from dementia and she addresses some of the challenges and concerns with both situations. While telling stories from her personal experience, Marcia gives advice on how to care for an elder's personal and spiritual needs, how to prepare in advance for a hospital visit, how to handle finances, and how to care for the caregiver. I really appreciated the vision Marcia casts of why this sacrificial ministry is so important, and I found the book convicting. Marcia reminded me I need to seek ways to honor my parents even if they don't need my full time help at this time.
Marcia's down to earth style of sharing her experiences of caring for elderly family members in her home was heart warming and encouraging to us in our own similar situation. I already knew some of what she shared through my own "on the job training," but also learned quite a few new "tricks of the trade" from Marcia, especially learning to address issues in ways that maintain respect for my elder, and several other practical tips about managing medications, documents, and finances. The appendices giving help with organizing documents and a "go bag" for doctor visits were especially helpful. I plan to give copies to my siblings who are also providing eldercare in their homes.
The prospect of caring for an elderly family member may look akin to rough dental work, but Marcia Washburn reveals instead the tenderness and love that is nurtured as we care for those who need our help in the final chapter of their life's journey. If it's time for you to care for your elderly loved one, Marcia offers advice from God's word and her own journey to encourage and enable you in your own journey honoring and caring for your loved ones.
I wish I would have had access to "Home-based Eldercare" when I began my journey caring for my parents fifteen years ago! The book is chock-full of real-life, practical tips to help the reader cope with the ever-changing landscape of eldercare – especially when dementia or Alzheimer’s is involved. Marcia writes from the trenches in a compassionate, faith-inspired voice to provide encouragement and tools for caregivers in various stages of eldercare. The author does appear to gear her writing toward readers who are female, married, and have raised children (there are frequent comparisons between eldercare and parenting young children). However, this does not diminish the overall value to anyone who is currently a caregiver or who will partake in the sacred responsibility of honoring their parents during their golden years.
Jane F.
What a treasure of helpful information! Marcia Washburn has provided a wonderful resource for adult children who are called or may be called upon to care for their parents. Home-Based Eldercare is a user-friendly textbook that takes the reader from an inventory of things to know, things to do, things not to forget to chapters on specific subjects and needs. She doesn't hide the fact that eldercare is difficult. But, she does prepare us to anticipate the future reality and be ready to intercept it when it arrives. I would recommend this book for every church library and for every family. -- Dr. David S. Apple, author of Not Just a Soup Kitchen How Mercy Ministry in the Local Church Transforms Us All.
Marcia Washburn has been known in homeschooling circles for a long time as she has authored a number of very insightful and practical books to encourage homeschooling parents to provide their children with a top-notch education. Now with her children grown, she has turned her focus to helping others do has she has successfully done during the past decade - care for aging parents in a home situation. Marcia has provided care for both her mother, who died after a long illness, and now cares for her mother-in-law who suffers from dementia. Marcia's loving kindness is matched with her excellent organization and communication skills, making this book very helpful and practical for the younger generation to care for the older generation following Biblical principles. She shares her life transparently and with humor, but also gets to the nitty-gritty of caring daily for bodies that are failing, and minds that aren't what they once were. This is a very good book for adult siblings to read and determine together what will be the best way to care for their beloved parents, while keeping them at home, instead of moving them to an institution permanently. Home-based elder has been happening for thousands of years, but for some reason 'enlightened' Americans have moved away from it. Be inspired that you and your family can do this, and do this well, and more importantly enjoy this special season in a multi-generational household.
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