"I thought I knew Jacqueline until I
read her book. Wow, what a story! If you’re caring for
an elder, you won’t believe how much this book will help you!”
—Regis Philbin
AARP's Bulletin "It's like fiction, or a made-for-TV movie, filled with
despair and deception, then resolution and redemption--
leavened by doses of humor."
Coping with Caregiving Archives
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November
Archives - 11.20.04
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With...
Larry
Cuocci is the author of "A Very Good Year" --the true story of one year in his life at age seventeen in 1976, when his sister wouldn't speak to him, his dad hated him, and when his life changed forever on a summer's day when his ailing mother asked him to help end her life. Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, called it "a skillfully written book about earthy feelings at the very core of life and death." It’s a survivor’s tale, an often-comic journey through sex, drugs, love and death.
WebSite
Chris
Thies is co-director of the Family Caregiver Support Network,
part of the National Family Caregiver Support Program, a resource center for family members and friends who help or care for older adults, in Milwaukee, WI. Chris is a former award-winning newspaper journalist and public affairs specialist who became interested in the field when her 77-year-old father was in a serious accident. Chris has been developing the program and advocating locally, regionally and nationally for family caregiver issues. WebSite
Elizabeth
Cohen is the author of "The Family on Beartown Road:
A Memoir of Love and Courage"
the story of being a caregiver for her father, who developed Alzheimer’s. Faced with the high degree of care her father needed, and the growing stress in the family that followed, her husband left six weeks later. Elizabeth was left to care for her father and her new baby all alone--but couldn’t help notice the juxtaposition of the deteriorating mind of her father and the new developing mind of her daughter. WebSite
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With...
Dr. Jill
Joyce is the author of "Don’t Forget: What
Drug & Insurance Co.'s Don’t Want You To Know
About Memory Loss." She is a psychotherapist, speech language pathologist, and professor of memory loss, who’s waging a national brain health campaign through her non-profit association “The Memory Loss Prevention and Recovery Institute.” Her mission is to inform people how to prevent and overcome memory loss using the most efficient methods and to encourage research and training for therapists. WebSite
Dr.
Alan Ettinger is the author of "The Essential Patient
Handbook: Getting the Care You Need, From Doctors Who
Know."
He’s Director
of the Long Island Jewish Comprehensive Epilepsy Center,
in New Hyde Park, NY, and Associate Professor in the Department
of Clinical Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. Dr. Ettinger is cited each year in New York
Magazine's highly selective list of Best Doctors. His
website includes free forms for caregivers to organize
medical information for their doctor.
WebSite
Bruce
Van Horn is the author of "Yoga For Men", and
developer of the Yomenco program
--a combination of yoga and flamingo, designed for seniors and nursing home environments, to help motivate behavioral changes in dementia patients. Ten years ago while caring for his father with Alzheimer’s disease, Bruce used eastern spirituality to communicate, and realized the potential for these healing modalities with others. Now, thirty eldercare facilities in the New York Metro region use his innovative program. WebSite
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and for everyone who thinks it will never happen to them.
Jacqueline Marcell is a former college professor &
television executive, who after the experience of caring
for her elderly parents has become an author, publisher
and sought-after national speaker, dedicating her life
to eldercare awareness and reform. She is the devoted daughter
in her riveting true story, "Elder Rage, or Take
My Father... Please! How To Survive Caring For
Aging Parents," written she says, "so that no one
else would ever have to go through what I did."
"Elder Rage" is endorsed by: Hugh Downs,
Regis Philbin, Dr. Dean Edell, Duke University Center
for Aging, Dr. Nancy Snyderman/ABC News, Ed Asner,
Betty Friedan, Art Linkletter, Dr. Bernie Siegel,
John Bradshaw, Dr. John Gray, Senator John D. Rockefeller
IV and The Johns Hopkins Memory Clinic.
