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LINKS

Family Caregiver Alliance: www.caregiver.org

Social Security Administration: ssa.gov

Veteran Affairs (VA): www.med.va.gov

Administration on Aging (AoA): www.aoa.gov

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP): www.aarp.org-LIFE REIMAGINED

Children of Aging Parents: www.caps4caregivers.org

Medicare: www.medicare.gov

National Information Center for Children andYouth with Disabilities - www.nichcy.org

American Cancer Society www.cancer.org

American Diabetes Association www.diabetes.org

American Heart Association www.heart.org

Arthritis Foundation – www.arthritis.org

National Kidney Foundation www.kidney.org

National Mental Health Association www.nmha.org

National Multiple Sclerosis Society www.nationalmssociety.org

United Cerebral Palsy www.ucp.org -

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – www.hhs.gov

www.caregiverslibrary.org

Needymeds - http://www.needymeds.com

Lotsa Helping Hands

Caregiver Action Network

RESOURCES AND LINKS

CAREGIVER KUDOS

Senator Warner of Virginia Honors Caregivers of Wounded Service Members

The Yellow Ribbon Family Caregiver Program was founded in 2005, when several Washington area business owners came together to help a mom struggling to take care of her son, a wounded Marine at Walter Reed hospital

The program recognizes the challenges and sacrifices that caregivers have made for their wounded loved ones. They offer family oriented retreats and services to help support caregivers and their families.

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Alzheimers researchers have predicted the need for dementia caregivers will continue to grow as baby boomers age, and will triple by the year 2050.

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MY BOOK LIST

These are just a few of the books and articles that I found helpful and I hope you will too. I'll be updating the list periodically and if you have a book(s) you've found helpful as a caregiver, please share.

The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for PeopleWho Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias,and Memory Loss, fifth edition - By Nancy L. Mace, M.A., and Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H

Carter,Rossalyn, with Susan K. Golant as a contriubtor-Helping Someone With Mental Illness:

Carter, Rossalyn_ Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book For Caregivers - Random House

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

By Paula Span

“A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents and Ourselves”

By Jane Gross, journalist, New York Times and founder of the New Old Age blog

“Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You”

By Roberta Satow, Ph. D.

“CAREGIVING Ready or Not”

By Charles Puchta

“The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”

By Walter Mosley

“The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: What You Need to Know—and What You Can Do—about Memory Problems, from Prevention to Early Intervention and Care”

By P. Murali Doraiswamy, Lisa P. Gwyther and Tina Adler, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

“Always My Grandpa: A Story for Children About Alzheimer’s Disease”

Linda Scacco, Ph.D., Unitarian Universalist Curriculum and Resource Developers

“Slow Dancing with a Stranger”

By Meryl Comer, Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative

“They’re Your Parents Too”

By Francine Russo, journalist and Baby Boomer expert for TIME and other magazines and journals

“A Gradual Disappearance”

By Elizabeth Lonseth, interior designer and business owner

“No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver’s Days”

By Susan Allen Toth, Writer, The New York Times, Washington Post, Harper’s, and Vogue

“The Caregiver’s Survival Handbook (Revised): Caring for Your Aging Parents Without Losing Yourself”

By Alexis Abramson, PhD

“Still Alice”

By Lisa Genova, neuroscientist and author

“Caring for Your Parents: The Complete Family Guide (AARP)”

By Hugh Delehanty, former Sports Illustrated editor and is editor in chief of AARP Media Properties

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