Below are some useful resources for family caregiving.  You may also find additional hints and tips on the Caretips and Articles page. 

! Quick Guide for Caregivers - Local Resources

Books on Caregiving

• A Caregiver's Handbook for Advanced-Stage Huntington's Disease, Jim Pollard
• A Family Caregiver Speaks Up, Suzanne Mintz
• A Guidebook for Caregivers of Children and Adolescents, National Alliance on Mental Illness
• A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription For Happiness, Dr. Elizabeth R. Lombardo
• A Turn for the Better, Kim Hendrickson Leffler
• An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family, editor, Nell Casey
• Caring for You, Caring for Me: Education and Support for Family and Professional Caregivers, Rosalynn Carter Institute
• Caregiving At Home, William Leahy
• Caregiver's Handbook: A Guide to Caring for the Ill, Elderly, or Disabled and Yourself Harvard Health, Harvard Medical School
• Caregiving in Rural Communities, Rosalyn Carter Caregiving Institute
• Caregiving Near Life's End, Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
• Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
• Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, LeAnn Thieman
• Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Parent's Guide. Edited by Lisa Schoenbrodt,
• Confessions of a Caregiver, When Alzheimer's Comes to Your Home, Joseph Skillin
• Eldercare at Home, American Geriatrics Society Foundation for Health in Aging
• Elder Rage-or-Take My Father, Please! Jacqueline Marcell
• Finding Meaning with Charles: Caregiving with Love through a Degenerative Disease, Janet Edmunson
• God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart, 12 Ways to Keep It Together, Gretchen Thompson
• Hard To Forget, An Alzheimer's Story, Charles P. Pierce
• Head Injury: Information and Answers to Commonly Asked Questions: A Family's Guide to Coping, Christopher D. Strum, MD, Thomas R. Forget, Jr., MD, and Janet L. Strum, RN.
• How to Care for Aging Parents, Virgina Morris
• How to Communicate with Alzheimer's: A Practical Guide & Workbook for Families, Susan Kohler MS, CCC-SLP.
• Huntington's Disease: The Facts, Oliver Quarrell
• Living with Brain Injury: A Guide for Families, Richard Senelick, MD and Karla Dougherty
• My Mom Has Alzheimer's: Inspiration and Help for Caregivers, Linda A. Born.
• No More Words, A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Our Parents, Ourselves, Judith Turiel
• Passages in Caregiving, by Gail Sheeney
• Priceless Caregiving: Stores of Elder Care Success, Courage and Strength, Valerie VanBooven.
• Ready to Heal, Kelly McDaniel
• Self-Care For Caregivers, A Twelve Step Approach - by Pat Samples
• Senior Days: Insightful Tales and No-Nonsense Help from the Frontlines of Eldercare, Colleen and Brian Nicol
• Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving, Sheryl Karas
• Stages of Senior Care, Hogan
• Take Comfort, Denise Brown
• The Caregiver Handbook: Powerful Tools for Caregiving
• The Caregivers Survival Handbook, Caring for your Aging Parents without Losing
• The Daughter Trap, Laurel Kennedy
• The Elder Care Survival Guide, Martin Sabel
• The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir, Howard Reich
• The HDI Coping Series and the HDI Professional Series on Traumatic Brain Injury, William Burke, Michael Wesolowski and William Blacker
• The Secret to Caregiver Success, Dr. Arnld Bresky
• The Seven Desires of Every Heart, Mark and Debra Laaser
• The Stranger I Call Grandma; A Story About Alzheimer's Disease,y Swanee Ballman
• The 36 Hour Day, A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer's Disease, Other Dementias and Memory Loss in Later Life, Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins
• THEY'RE YOUR PARENTS, TOO! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy, Francine Russo.
• Therapeutic Caregiving: A Practical Guide for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's and Other Dementia Causing Diseases, Barbara J. Bridges
• To Survive Caregiving: A Daughter's Experience, A Doctor's Advice on Finding Hope, Help and Health, Dr. Cheryl Woodson
• Traumatic Head Injury: Cause, Consequence and Challenge. Dennis P. Swiercinsky, Terrie L. Price and Lief Erick Leaf, 1993
• Voices of Caregiving, the Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength, Various Contributors
• Understanding Behavior in Huntington's Disease: A Practical Guide for Individuals, Families and Professionals Coping with HD, Jane S. Paulsen
• Walking the Tightrope: Living at Risk for Huntington's Disease, Randi Jones
• What Happens Next? A Family Guide to Nursing Home Visits...and More, Chloe Giampaolo
• Worried Sick, Karol Ward, LCSW.
• Yourself, Alex Abramson, Ph.D.
• You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Caregivers, B. Lynn Goodwin
• 6 Years of Grace, Caregiving Episodes With My Mother, Jennifer Sokol

Papers on Caregiving

• CLASS Issue Brief, -- Summary of Long Term Health Care Help for Family Caregivers
• American College of Physician's Ethical Guidelines to Optimal Relationships with Patients and Family Caregivers
• National Position Policy Statement Outline 2008-2009
• Presidental Caregiver Initiative Brief
• Toward a National Caregivers Agenda
• Physicians Recognize Family Caregivers

Presentations and Recordings on Caregiving

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• (AUDIO) Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Radio Stations WONN/WPCV/WLKS/WWRZ Sheila Hollowell, MA - Polk Family Caregivers July, 2009 (approximately 15 minutes) [ Click to play radio interview ]

• (VIDEO) Planning Ahead: The Legal Issues Facing the Aged and Those With Special Needs

Michael T. Heider, JD, CPA - Heider Law Part 1 (approx. 24 minutes) Part 2 (approx. 13 minutes)

• (VIDEO) Care for the Caregiver

Bud Hollowell, PhD - Flamingo Homecare Part 1 (approx 23 minutes) Part 2 (approx 13 minutes)

• (VIDEO) Attention Deficit Hyperactivty Disorder (ADHD)

Richard Marshall, PhD - University of South Florida - Polytechnic Recorded at the 2009 Annual Polk Caregivers Summit. Part 1 (approx. 31 minutes) Part 2 (approx. 10 minutes)

Media Coverage on Caregiving

• Survey Shows High Number Of Caregivers, The Lakeland Ledger, April 11, 2009
• Seven Secrets to Successful Caregiving of Older Adults, PR Newswire, August 27, 2009
• A Growing Challenge: Caregivers Need Resources, The Lakeland Ledger, February 1, 2010
• Polk Family Caregivers, Editorial, The Lakeland Ledger, February 9, 2010)
• Take Time To Give a Lift to Family Caregivers, Editorial, The Lakeland Ledger, July 2, 2010