The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia

Practical Advice for Caring for Yourself and Your Loved One

By: Gail Weatherill RN CAEd

Narrated by: Ann Osmond

Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

Care for yourself, while caring for a loved one with dementia

When caring for someone with dementia, your own mental stability can be the single most critical factor in your loved one’s quality of life. The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia brings practical and comprehensive guidance to understanding the illness, caring for someone, and caring for yourself.

From understanding common behavioral and mood changes to making financial decisions, this book contains bulleted lists of actions you can take to improve your health and your caregiving. Inspirational and compassionate, it focuses on the caregiver’s underlying love and humanity that cannot be taken away by any disease.

In The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia you’ll find:

• Dementia defined - Understand dementia and its many forms, with an explanation of the illness and its variations.
• Caregiver wellness - At the end of each chapter, a small section provides relaxation and mindfulness exercises and reflection for dementia caregivers.
• Practical approach - Resources, from financial planning to tips on safety, along with questions for health care professionals, lawyers, accountants, therapists, and friends.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Practical

Lots of helpful tips and understanding of what people go through when dealing with dementia.

Nicely done

Good info and good performance. Done with a humanizing touch and additional focus on caregiver

In the thick of it

Out of all the podcasts & books I’ve listened to & read, this one Hands down has been the most helpful!

Also Educational for Non-Care Givers

Outlines very important medical knowledge in laymen terms. Useful for medical professionals as reference for role of caregivers, and understanding of caregiver stress/burden/bereavement. Possible use as a reference for empathetic laymen language, as a last resort.

Not the best for Audio book - a lot of reference

This has a lot of good information but references "see section - for more information". Also at the end of each subject she lists "What to say" or "What to do". This book would be better if you had the actual book to reference and make notes on it.

Otherwise it has a lot of good information and she makes sure to see how you are doing or make sure you are taking care of yourself as a caregiver.

must read

loved it extremely informative. I bought four more copies for friends and family. very compassionate

Dementia 101

Extremely informative and comprehensive. My understanding of dementia increased exponentially. Although I know there’s much more know, I feel more comfortable helping my loved one after reading this book.

Great Information

I loved how she had questions and
answers,
Thank you!
This helped me so much!

As a RN myself I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend

I bought this book in print for myself, my sister and my dad. My mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s and despite being a a critical care nurse with lots of experience caring for patients with varying types and degrees of dementia while in the hospital it in completely a different story when my mother has been diagnosed with it and going through the entirety of the progression. We are only in the first stages. I have read a couple books so far desperately trying to gain as much knowledge in this disease only to be filled with gut wrenching fear but I know knowledge is power so I continue to pick up the next book. This book is AMAZING. Gail’s knowledge and experience and expertise as a nurse has enabled her to write this book in a very methodical way that does not sugar coat the disease but she is able to compassionately talk through this book to the reader as if she is having a conversation with you at a table. I found this book comforting and filled with hope despite the fact that there is no cure for this disease and our loved ones demise is a bleak one. I am very confident that this book will possibly be my #1 go to resource as I help my dad care for my mother. If it’s not my #1 it will be one of my top 3 hands down abd I have at least 8 books to read still...please read this book and PLEASE listen to her suggestions about the binder to have prepared for those hospital visits. That binder she talks about to have on hand with all that information included is pure gold to those nurses and doctors taking care of your loved one. You have no idea how massively important we need that information and how most the time no one has that information readily available.

A must read for all who must endure the path.

Find understanding, find hope, solutions toward coping. When we learn we heal. For all who suffer from this affliction as family, friends, or professionals.