The Sandwich Generation's Guide to Eldercare

by Kimberly Wickert MRC CRC, Danielle Dresden MEd CRC, Phillip D. Rumrill Jr. PhD CRC

Gold Winner, 2013 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, Family & Relationships Category A practical, accessible, and comprehensive guide to the legal, financial, emotional and daily living challenges of caring for aging parents while raising your own family. If you are caring for an elderly loved one while raising a child, you may feel overwhelmed and unprepared. The Sandwich GenerationÌs Guide to Eldercare, written by three experts with extensive professional and personal experience with eldercare, provides the information and resources you need to make important decisions, balance your responsibilities, and ensure your elders well-being as well as your own. It includes how

Genres: Parenting, Health

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2012

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Sandwich Generation’s Guide to Eldercare: Concrete Advice to Simultaneously Care for Your Kids and Your Parents by Wickert, Dresden and Rumrill is an excellent resource that can be read for an overall glimpse, a review of resources and guidelines for individuals and families finding themselves providing eldercare. It can also be a step by step guide to assist you is you are needing a bit of outside guidance navigating this difficult but common circumstance. The chapters can be used individually and the forms, checklists, and advice given are very specific to the chapter titles.

“The Sandwich Generation” provides a feeling of support and understanding for those dealing with the feeling of being 'caught in the middle' as it is very easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of important responsibilities and complex issue to address with eldercare. I found this book very helpful and feel it would be an excellent resource for those who would use a guide to give more structure to taking care of yourself and your loved ones. It is well organized, clear and full of excellent information. I give this book a 5 star rating.

[Gerald Kinro · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a simple straight-forward book that gives practical advice to a job many of us are or will soon be undertaking. They cite experiences of others as they went through the steps of this difficult and emotional period. Most important, they offer sound advice. Many may not realize it, but there are hoops that must be jumped through with no shortcuts. The examples dealt with dementia that affects many aging persons. I liked it. I would have liked it more if there was more discussion of other activities of daily living that can force one to require care.

[Ellenh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this through LibraryThings' giveaways and thankfully so. A great book for all of those caregivers out there. It is not a book you curl up with and read cover to cover in one shot, but one that will be useful skimmed and then looked at over and over. The information is good and up to date, the stories hit home and are useful. While this subject is on that most of us never want to deal with, we can end up caring for someone unexpectedly and unprepared.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who suddenly found herself caring for my husbands uncle I wish I had this book to read at the time. This book not only gives you others stories but helpful advice. It also lets you know that it's ok to say you need a break now and then and to ask for help. I think everyone should read this book because you never know if one day you will have to step up and be a care giver. People who have never done this do not know how difficult a job it is and it was a comfort to read this book.