Elder Care and Understanding

• Elder Caregiving Basics

Abramson, Alexis
The Caregiver’s Survival Handbook: How to Care for Your Aging Parent Without Losing Yourself, 2004

Delehanty, Hugh & Elinor Ginzler
Caring for Your Parents: The Complete AARP Guide, 2005

Gleckman, Howard
Caring for Our Parents: Inspiring Stories of Families Seeking New Solutions to America’s Most Urgent Health Crisis, 2009

Lebow, Grace & Barbara Kane
Coping with Your Difficult Older Parent: A Guide for Stressed-Out Children, 1999, 2002

Loverde, Joy
The Complete Eldercare Planner: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help, 2nd Edition, 2000

Mace, Nancy & Peter Rabins
The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias & Memory Loss in Later Life, 4th Edition

Morris, Virginia
How to Care for Aging Parents, 1996, 2004

Zuckerman, Rachelle, Ph.D.
Eldercare for Dummies, 2003

• Memoirs, Memories, A Novel,
and Getting to Know Your Parents

Geist, Mary Ellen
Measure of the Heart: Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer’s

Genova, Lisa
Still Alice, 2009 [a novel]

Kiper, Barbara Ann
4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, 2004

Ledoux, Denis
Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Life Stories

• Ethical Wills

[An “ethical will” is a place to write down one’s values, and, to quote from Barry Baines, “a vehicle for clarifying and communicating the meaning in our lives to our family and community.”]

Baines, Barry K., M.D.
Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper, 2nd Edition, 2002, 2006

Baines, Barry K., M.D.
The Ethical Will Resource Kit: Preserving Your Legacy of Values for Your Family:
An Introduction to Ethical Wills With Step-by-Step Instructions and Exercises to Help You Prepare One, 1998

Riemer, Jack & Nathaniel Stampfer
So That Your Values Live On: Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them, 1991

• Communication and Legal Planning

Rosenberg, Marshall and Arun Gandhi
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 2003

Rottenberg, Dan
The Inheritor’s Handbook: A Definitive Guide for Beneficiaries: Practical Advice About Inheritances of Any Size, 1999, 2000

Stone, Douglas & Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, 1999

• Spiritual Perspective

Dass, Ram
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying, 2000

Levine, Stephen
Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings, 1991

Levine, Stephen
Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed, 1984

• Websites

Nolo Press

Alzheimer's Association

The above lists do not represent endorsement, or recommendation, just a starting place.
Delia Brinton MFT, February 2010