Logbookone or Share the Care

Logbookone: The Log for Runners, Joggers and Walkers

Author: Jason Cullinan

Designed for everyone from the walker to the elite marathoner, LogbookONE is the best training log you can get. Packed with user-friendly charts that make recording information a snap, this log will serve as an excellent archive of the important training that is being done.

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Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill

Author: Cappy Capossela

You Don't Have to Do It Alone

Whether you're prepared for it or not, chances are you'll take on the role of caregiver when a family member or friend is affected by a serious illness or injury, or when you find your elderly parent needs help. As you'll soon discover, the range of tasks and responsibilities involved are overwhelming. Share The Care offers a sensible and loving solution: a unique group approach that can turn a circle of ordinary people into a powerful caregiving team. Share The Care shows you how to:

• Create a caregiver "family" from friends, real family members, neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances.

• Hold a meeting to organize your group, and introduce members to the Share The Care systems that guarantee every job will be done and no one person will have to do too much.

• Discover the hidden talents within the group, make the most of their resources, cope with group issues, and stay together in the face of adversity.

Included here are valuable guidelines, compassionate suggestions, and a simple-to-use workbook section that together offer support to free the patient from worry and the caregivers from burnout. Share The Care offers friends and family the best answer ever to the frequently asked question "What can I do?"

Library Journal

This workbook, intended for recent as well as longtime caregivers, lays the foundation for assembling and organizing a group of friends and family who agree to share caregiving duties (called a "Funny Family" here). This revised edition of a popular 1995 title includes new information on orchestrating care long distance and hiring professional help, in addition to standard material about the widely used caregiving model, the agenda for the group's initial meeting, group exercises, schedules, safety checklists, dosage forms, medical history forms, personal insights, and firsthand observations. A directory of helpful associations, books, web sites, newsletters, and magazines appears at the conclusion; there is even an accompanying web site (www.sharethecare.org). A sine qua non for hospital social workers, chaplains, gerontologists, psychologists, and counselors; highly recommended for hospital libraries, public libraries of any size, and consumer healthcare collections in academic libraries.-Cleo Pappas, La Grange Memorial Hosp. Lib., IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Taking on responsibility for short or long-term care for the seriously ill can be overwhelming and confusing. Detailing their personal experience with a dying friend, the authors demonstrate how the aphorism "many hands make light work" holds true. By developing "caring networks," the work is spread among friends, neighbors, and family members, alleviating stress on the primary caregiver and providing peace of mind to the patient. Part case study, part how-to, this book includes sample forms and checklists, allowing readers to use it as a springboard to create their own group and providing practical advice and reassurance. Recommended for popular medical collections.-Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., N.Y.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	11
Ch. 1	How This Book Came to Be Written	14
Ch. 2	Do You Need a Caregiver Group?	24
Ch. 3	How to Take the First Steps in Forming a Share The Care Group	33
Ch. 4	How to Use This Book	42
Ch. 5	A Message from the Authors: How to Use This Section	48
Ch. 6	Planning the Meeting: Getting Started	55
Ch. 7	The Meeting: Part One: Getting to Know Each Other	74
Ch. 8	The Meeting: Part Two: Getting Organized	83
Ch. 9	the Workbook: All the Materials You Need to Make Your Group Run	111
Ch. 10	What the Group Means	136
Ch. 11	The Most Common Caregiver Group Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them	142
Ch. 12	The Jobs: An Overview	148
Ch. 13	Going with Your Friend to the Doctor	151
Ch. 14	Ten Steps to Making a Hospital Stay as Painless as Possible	155
Ch. 15	Finding Your Way Through the Medical Maze	164
Ch. 16	Making the Home Safe and Comfortable	180
Ch. 17	When Groups Help Out at Home	188
Ch. 18	Getting Their Affairs in Order	195
Ch. 19	Being with Someone Who Is Seriously Ill	210
Ch. 20	What-Ifs, Do's, and Don'ts	217
Ch. 21	The Second Meeting: Ten Signals That It's Time to Have One	232
Ch. 22	The Second Meeting: The Agenda	236
Ch. 23	Confronting Yourself	239
Ch. 24	Changes	246
Ch. 25	The Closing Meeting: Why You Need to Have One	249
Ch. 26	The Closing Meeting: The Agenda	251
Ch. 27	Personal Meaning	254
Ch. 28	The Healing Journey	260
	List of Resources	269
	Index	275