About the Book
Taking a care journey through dementia has taught me that the most difficult part of caring for a loved one is doing everything that has to be done while feeling everything that you’re feeling.
OMG! I’m the Grown-Up! A Conversation on Giving-Care to a Loved One…and Yourself is a road map for managing the interpersonal ups and downs of caring for a loved one.
Introducing the Praxis for Care
My book introduces the Praxis for Care, a strategy that has 3 goals:
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Help people caring for a loved one make decisions and take actions that are satisfying to both people
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Do the best one can do within the circumstances at hand
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Live life fully with no regrets.
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This book engages care-givers in self-reflection exercises for creating a care relationship that meets the needs of both the care-giver and care recipient.
The Praxis for Care encourages care-givers to think about what they want from the care relationship then develop a plan to actualize it.