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A Caregiver's Survival Guide: How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick
A Caregiver's Survival Guide How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick Author:Kay Marshall Strom When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs can take a back seat. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic. [] Finding spiritual support — [] Maintaining balanced rela... more »tionships
[] Deciding when living at home is no longer possible
[] Working out the finances
[] Understanding the impact on the whole family
[] Dealing with the personal losses Whether you are caring for an elderly parent or other adult relative, you will be encouraged by the stories the author tells from her own life and from the lives of others. And you will be helped by the concrete ideas to carry you through. "Kay Strom is a caregiver who has invested countless hours in helping her disabled husband. She knows what its like to plod through the routines, and she has opened up her heart and shared her poignant and powerful account of how she 'found the smile of God' through it all. Kay has experienced a lifetime of lessons and has catalogued invaluable insights to pass on to other caregivers." Joni Eareckson Tada, from the foreword« less