Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill
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You Don't Have to Do It AloneWhether 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 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.
Foreword11Ch. 1How This Book Came to Be Written14Ch. 2Do You Need a Caregiver Group?24Ch. 3How to Take the First Steps in Forming a Share The Care Group33Ch. 4How to Use This Book42Ch. 5A Message from the Authors: How to Use This Section48Ch. 6Planning the Meeting: Getting Started55Ch. 7The Meeting: Part One: Getting to Know Each Other74Ch. 8The Meeting: Part Two: Getting Organized83Ch. 9the Workbook: All the Materials You Need to Make Your Group Run111Ch. 10What the Group Means136Ch. 11The Most Common Caregiver Group Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them142Ch. 12The Jobs: An Overview148Ch. 13Going with Your Friend to the Doctor151Ch. 14Ten Steps to Making a Hospital Stay as Painless as Possible155Ch. 15Finding Your Way Through the Medical Maze164Ch. 16Making the Home Safe and Comfortable180Ch. 17When Groups Help Out at Home188Ch. 18Getting Their Affairs in Order195Ch. 19Being with Someone Who Is Seriously Ill210Ch. 20What-Ifs, Do's, and Don'ts217Ch. 21The Second Meeting: Ten Signals That It's Time to Have One232Ch. 22The Second Meeting: The Agenda236Ch. 23Confronting Yourself239Ch. 24Changes246Ch. 25The Closing Meeting: Why You Need to Have One249Ch. 26The Closing Meeting: The Agenda251Ch. 27Personal Meaning254Ch. 28The Healing Journey260List of Resources269Index275
