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A Caregiver's Survival Guide: How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick
Contributor(s): Strom, Kay Marshall (Author)
ISBN: 0830822305     ISBN-13: 9780830822300
Publisher: IVP
OUR PRICE:   $21.60  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: July 2000
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Annotation: Whether you are caring for an elderly parent or another adult relative, you will be encouraged by the stories the author tells from her own life and from the lives of others. And you will be helped by concrete ideas to carry you through.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Caregiving
- Religion | Christian Living - Family & Relationships
Dewey: 259.41
LCCN: 00039589
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.48" W x 8.21" (0.45 lbs) 153 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Evangelical
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:
When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic. She shows you how to
  • find spiritual support
  • maintain balanced relationships
  • decide when caregiving at home is no longer possible
  • work out your financial situation
  • understand the impact of long-term caregiving on the whole family
  • deal with your personal losses
Whether you are caring for an elderly parent, a spouse, an adult child or another family member or close friend, Strom's stories drawn from her own and othes' experiences will encourage and comfort you. And her practical ideas for how to meet your own needs for energy, patience, strength, wisdom, peace and creativity will carry you through many difficult days.

Contributor Bio(s): Strom, Kay Marshall: - A professional writer based in Eugene, Oregon, Kay Marshall Strom has written more than thirty books. She now partners with her husband (Daniel Kline) as Kline, Strom International, Inc., and together they have spoken on various topics to well over 100,000 people in more than twenty countries.