Helpful Books, Podcasts, & Products
Our mission is to guide you through your journey, making it less overwhelming and more rewarding. We provide carefully curated books offering practical guidance, uplifting narratives, and expert advice on coping with various aspects of eldercare. In addition, our handpicked podcasts bring expert insights right into your day, sharing experiences and strategies to navigate the challenges of caregiving. Our community supports learning and sharing, helping each other in transforming the caregiving journey into a more fulfilling experience.
Books We Love
The Caregiving Trap: Solutions for Life’s Unexpected Changes
The Caregiving Trap includes stories about Pamela’s actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers.
My Aging Parent Needs Help! 7 Step Guide to Caregiving
Is caring for your aging parent taking over your life? Do you want to regain some balance and manage your caregiving duties with less stress and more peace of mind? Then you need to keep reading…
The Inspired Caregiver
If you are a caregiver, this is a book you dog ear, underline, write in, and keep with you throughout your caregiving journey for inspiration and strength.
The 36-Hour Day
The central idea of this indispensable book is that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them.
When Your Aging Parent Needs Help
This book provides practical and flexible steps that move concerned families toward effective elder care action, while respecting a parent’s dignity and autonomy.
Watching for Dragonflies
Often poignant, at times funny, and always riveting, Watching for Dragonflies will bring comfort—and inspiration—to readers as they navigate their own transformative journey.
The Thoughtful Caregiver
The Thoughtful Caregiver is like having a conversation over a cup of tea with a friend who has walked the caregiving path a little bit ahead of you.
Dementia Caregiving
This self-care book provides practical coping strategies for untangling dementia to prevent caregiver burnout, increase awareness, and identify the invisible burden.
The Empowered Caregiver's Guide to Dementia
Essential strategies and insights for managing the physical, financial, emotional, and other challenging aspects of caregiving while maintaining your personal and spiritual well-being throughout this journey.
Toolkit for Caregivers
Deidre Edwards shares the inside story of how to give care and survive the emotional ups and downs in this unique double book of practical insights and proven skills.
Favorite Podcasts
The Caring Generation®
Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
Offers a candid, unfiltered space to confess the good, the bad, and the ugly of being a caregiver through storytelling, guest interviews, and information sharing. JJ, Natalie, and Emilie are a trio of sisters supporting their mom living with Parkinson’s and a husband who survived cancer.
Boomers Today
Frank Samson, founder and CEO of Senior Care Authority®, interviews a different expert on aspects of what families face as the Boomers and their parents are aging. Subjects range from caregiver challenges, to legal matters, to financial considerations, to health and wellness topics and self-care.
Dementia Care Partner Talk Show
Learn and laugh with us as we discuss creative solutions and ideas to common and uncommon dementia care challenges, and how to make sense of the senior care industry and options when you’re not a professional.
Helping Older Parents
Get practical information about how to care for aging parents from a geriatrician and other experts.
Daughterhood The Podcast
This monthly podcast aims to provide insight into navigating the healthcare system, resources, support, and community to those caring for their loved ones.
Happy Healthy Caregiver
The show where real family caregivers share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others.
Love Your Caregiving Life
If you’re a caregiver hoping to find you aren’t the only one feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, resentful, and alone…this is for you!
Parenting Up!
Get engulfed in the intense journey of a caregiver who happens to be a comedian. J Smiles use of levity reveals the stress and rewards of caregiving interwoven with her own personal journey.
Your Guide To Avoiding Burnout & Surviving Grief
The podcast aims to help you avoid burnout, navigate through grief, and continue providing compassionate care while also maintaining your wellbeing.
Useful Products
Lucid Hearing
Premium over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids feature; High definition natural sound with speaker-in-the-ear for greater clarity, App-controlled customizable sound settings, Bluetooth streaming from Android or iPhone device, Lifetime support, All-day comfort
MobileHelp
MobileHelp in Home. With a simple push of a button, summon emergency help at home with a MobileHelp medical alert system. Installs in seconds and is integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data, and GPS technology to provide real-time medical monitoring services and location tracking.
Reacher Grabber Tool, 31"
Grabbers for Elderly, Lightweight Extra Long Handy Trash Claw Grabber, Mobility Aid Reaching Assist Tool for Trash Pick Up, Nabber, Litter Picker, Arm Extension
Folding Steel Bedside Commode Chair
3-in-1 design enables this model to be positioned over a standard toilet, used as a portable self-contained commode, or shower chair
Incontinence Bed Pads 36 x 36 Inches (Pack of 50)
DISPOSABLE underpads (also referred to as Chux or Chucks) provide simplicity, comfort and confidence for protecting bedding & furniture
Personal EKG Monitor – Six Views of the Heart
KardiaMobile 6L records a medical-grade, six-lead EKG and provides FDA-cleared determinations of your heart rhythm in just 30 seconds
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