The target audience is women between the ages of 42 and 65. They
represent the majority of unpaid care givers for loved ones with
dementia.
Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During and After will
examine taking on the role of care giver and help them make informed
decisions about in-home care giving. It will give examples of how to
create a safe living space, how to use distraction techniques, and
suggest available resources for the care giver. It will emphasize the
role of care giver respite and participating in dementia community
support to relieve the daily stress of dementia care.
Home care giver, Tracy Cram Perkins, will use anecdotes drawn from
twelve years of experience. Demetia Home Care will cover
aggressive behavior, coping strategies, memory aids, communication aids,
and support services. There is a space at the end of each chapter for
the reader to record special or humorous moments with their loved ones.
And it will address the empty nester experience after the loss of a
loved one--to a nursing facility or to death--rarely covered in other
books of this genre.
This life-lesson of care giving is not meant to destroy us but meant to
remind us to take care of ourselves, forgive ourselves, accept
ourselves. To know other people trudge up this same hill with us every
day. To pay forward kindness in some measure. To know laughter has not
abandoned us.
At the end, to know some measure of joy.
--Tracy Cram Perkins
