A Caregiver's Survival Guide: How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick

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.

Author: Kay Marshall Strom
Publisher: IVP Books
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 153
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.48w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780830822300

About the Author
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.

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