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What the reviewers say...


Riveting caregiving experiences generously shared by career counselors, coaches, and healthcare professionals—empowering caregivers to identify and apply the insights to their own eldercare challenges.

—Jacqueline Marcell, author “Elder Rage” and host “Coping with Caregiving” radio show


Care for the elderly is of upmost importance. An understanding of this vast emerging need and the career opportunities it creates is crucial. This is a must read.
—John Gray Phd. Author Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus


Caregiving, on one form or another, touches each of us.  Sharing poignant, lived stories that span the stages of caregiving, the authors provide extraordinary insights, heartfelt inspirations, as well as practical advice for we the boomers – the now generation of caregivers – to achieve a balance among the many work-life responsibilities we all face today.

–Linda Hollinger-Smith, RN, PhD, FAAN
Vice President, Institute on Aging, Mather LifeWays

 

Each of us, if we live long enough, can reasonably expect to be part of the "shadow workforce." Caregiving is our universal destiny. But the one who gives the care also faces a challenge. When our time comes, how will we respond to the challenge at hand? We look for a new kind of hope. And this vital resource provides us with that hope.
—Richard J. Leider, Founder, The Inventure Group and author, The Power of Purpose and Something to Live For

 

As our population ages, the time has come to empower the shadow workforce – the over-worked, underpaid population of family caregivers.  This wonderful book provides a unique and powerful contribution of care to caregivers—highly recommended.
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
author, The Spectrum

 

A book that's long overdue and that will be needed even more as we become a more aged population. The authors are sensitive to both the caregiver and the caregivee.  They address the feelings and the tasks of both the care giver and the care receiver. As a 72-year-old working professional, I feel blessed to be the daughter of a 99 and 1/2 year-old mother, who continues to be a lifetime caregiver.  I can truly relate to the challenges and rewards of the shadow workforce. Every caregiver should have a copy of this monograph.
—Roberta Floyd, NCCC, CDF Master Trainer, and Former President of the National Employment Counseling Association


 
Roberta's Mom at 100 


The monograph should really wake up career professionals to the need to add one more transition/development stage in adult development. In the 'good old days' we just had to match an individual with a job and they 'lived happily ever after.'  Now we must add the challenge of juggling work and caregiving of declining parents to all the other challenges that have emerged in adult development.

—Richard Knowdell, Executive Director, Career Planning and Adult Network


 

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