Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers - Hardcover

Carter, Rosalynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812923707 ISBN 13: 9780812923704

Publisher: Crown, 1994

Synopsis

The former first lady presents a practical handbook on how to care at home for people with chronic health problems, addressing the social issues that have created a crisis in caregiving and offering practical solutions to the problems. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

at home for her ailing father and grandfather, Rosalynn Carter's involvement has taught her that Americans are in the middle of a caregiving crisis. In this book, Mrs. Carter addresses the social issues that have created this crisis and offers practical solutions to the problems caregivers typically experience, such as isolation, burnout, anger, and helplessness.

From Kirkus Reviews:

The former First Lady (First Lady from Plains, 1984, etc.) offers advice, support, and pats on the back for all those who feed, clothe, bathe, and comfort sick friends and relatives, for those who insert the feeding tubes and empty the bedpans. In her introduction, Carter explains: ``I have written Helping Yourself Help Others to hopefully ease the trauma associated with caregiving and to help you feel not quite so alone.'' In a tone that hovers somewhere between the maternal and the institutional, Carter reassures home caregivers that their complaints about having no time of their own are not expressions of selfishness and that fatigue is not failure. She offers strategies to avoid burnout and depression and advice on how to deal with the problems that caregiving can cause in a marriage. It's not just care for the old and infirm that she addresses. Carter's talking to those who care for developmentally disabled children, people with AIDS, the injured, and anyone else who might require long-term care in the home. Much of the data used in the book comes out of the Rosalynn Carter Institute at Georgia Southwestern College. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0812923707
• ISBN 13: 9780812923704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278