Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories

by Carol Bradley Bursack

Overview

Minding our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories is a portable support group, a reminder you aren't alone. Each story about caring for the elderly is self-contained; each person telling his or her story knows your pain in watching a loved one suffer, the joy of giving of oneself, and the emotional and physical exhaustion of the whole experience. It is an intimate and powerful resource for caregivers, filled with true stories about seniors and aging parents.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014265256
Publisher:	Carol Bradley Bursack
Publication date:	03/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	135
Sales rank:	374,109
File size:	905 KB

About the Author

Over the span of two decades author, columnist and speaker Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members. Because of this experience, Bradley Bursack created a portable support group – the book “Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories.” Her sites, www.mindingourelders.com and www.mindingoureldersblogs.com include helpful resources as well as links to direct support. Bradley Bursack’s syndicated newspaper column runs weekly in print and online, she speaks at workshops and conferences and has been interviewed by national radio, newspapers and magazines. Bradley Bursack is a consultant who also writes on caregiving and senior issues for several national Web sites. She is a contributing author to "Dementia: Frank and Linda’s story: New approaches, new understanding, new hope," (Lion-Monarch, March 2010).

Editorial Reviews

Anyone in the process of providing the most appropriate and loving caregiving for their beloved elderly knows just how rewarding the experience is. There are miraculous moments of shared tenderness and indescribable opportunities of healing. And yet there is another side to caregiving - it is often an emotionally exhausting and physically demanding journey. Caring for someone's declining health and wellbeing can feel like being in the middle of an out of control emotional whirlwind. Feelings of

Amazon - Dr. Annette Colby

This book is far more than a delightfully well-written collection of inspiring stories.... The book really seems to prepare one for something one can't prepare for!!...It's quite brilliant...through a collection of vividly told stories, the reader has actually been there, ...with differing elders, personalities, needs, wishes, emotions, settings, timetables, etc.. ..all are unique, yet all are similar in that they are all trial and error on the caregivers part...uncharted waters you will just ge

Amazon - Skip Jones

"As the frazzled son of an aging mother with dementia, I found validation and comfort in Carol Bradley Bursack's exceptional book, "Minding Our Elders." Eldercare is often a lonely business and one that places a profound mental and physical burden on the caregiver. Healing begins with the discovery that one is not alone. "Minding Our Elders" provides ample evidence that eldercaregivers have plenty of company these days. Bob Tell, author Dementia Diary

Amazon - Bob Tell

Give our youth-worshipping culture, the topic of this book isn't "sexy," but I challenge any reader of any age with half a heart to read more than two pages and stop. You simply can't.

Carol Bradley Bursack has lovingly and perceptively gathered the stories of caregiving friends and acquaintances, mixed them with her own, and quilted together a heart-warming book that is inescapably sentimental, yet incredibly down-to-earth.

The book would be a great tool for a caregivers suppo

Amazon - Julie Sorenson

I intended to 'leaf through' Minding Our Elders and ended

up being pulled in to it. I read the entire book in one

sitting. I have great respect for writers that can weave

words together in a manner that creates not only a picture

in your mind, but invokes the emotion of the heart and soul

of the reader. You may never know how many hearts you touch

with this book, Carol, but you will be blessed in many

unforeseen ways for this contrib

Amazon - Barbara Mascio