Caregiving For Your Loved Ones

Description for CAREGIVING FOR YOUR LOVED ONES by Mary Vaughn Armstrong:

How to care for yourself while caring for your loved one.

Caregivers face defeat when they don't take care of themselves. They spend energy, time, and health as if these things were unlimited. And they're too embarrassed to express their real feelings, so they quietly suffer.

Are you ready for caregiving?

What's caregiving really going to be like? To help you make a realistic assessment, Mary Vaughn Armstrong opens her book with a painfully honest look at caregiving's total impact on your family's life. After answering her direct questions, you'll be better prepared emotionally for what lies ahead.

Help!

In the remainder of the book, Armstrong draws on her own experiences and those of many other caregivers to provide encouragement and advice for the most common difficulties of caregiving:

* Getting help from family, friend, church, and prayer.

* Deciding when to begin caregiving, and when to stop.

* Coping with one's own health limitations.

* Enduring verbal abuse from a loved one.

* Evalutating other options of home care, becomes too much to handle.

* Thinking unthinkable thoughts.

Caregiving is an enormous commitment. The Well-being of your loved one is at stake. But the first step to maintaining that commitment is learning to share your feelings openly with your spouse, your friends, and with God. Only then can you draw on the vast resources God provides.