Synopses & Reviews
Marty Richards invites you to a new way of thinking about caregiving, an innovative and integrated approach that aims to preserve the well-being of all involved. Drawing from her professional and personal experience as a caregiver, Richards encourages you to see the caregiver--friends, family, faith community, and healthcare professionals--and care receiver as a network in the sharing care relationship. Rather than seeing the need for help as a weakness, Richards presents sharing care as a strength that broadens resources, develops meaningful relationships, and enlivens day-to-day experiences for the caregiver and care receiver.
In the give-and-take approach of caresharing, you and your care partner will:
Share on Equal Footing
Learn from Each Other
Honor What Is Whole
Preserve the Respect and Dignity of
All Involved
See the Sacred in Each Other
Synopsis
The word caregiver typically suggests someone doing all the giving for a frail, physically challenged, or aging person, who is doing all the receiving. Marty Richards proposes a rebalanced approach of caresharing. From this perspective, the cared for and the carer share a deep sense of connection. Each has strengths and resources. Each can teach the other. Each can share in grief, hope, wisdom, and forgiveness. The book's focus is to help caregivers realize that they are not alone in their journey. Richards broadens the scope of the give-and-take relationship to include multigenerational families and faith communities, looking at the strengths each has to offer in the caregiving network. In order to keep the spirit alive--whether in short-term or long-term care--Richards offers a mulitlayered, reciprocal process
Synopsis
Rebalancing the Roles in Caregiving So All Involved Are Supported
"When you care for someone who is dealing with the complexities of aging, illness, or disability, you share intense emotions and form deep bonds. You each have the opportunity to recognize what is most deeply human--and most deeply Divine--in the other. This sense of reciprocal sharing--between the caregiver, care receiver, and with others around you--is the essence of the dance in caresharing."
--from the Prelude
The word caregiver typically suggests someone doing all the giving for a frail, physically or mentally challenged, or aging person who is doing all the receiving. Marty Richards proposes a rebalanced approach of "caresharing." From this perspective, the "cared for" and the "carer" share a deep sense of connection. Each has strengths and resources. Each can teach the other. Each can share in grief, hope, love and wisdom.
Richards shows you how to move from independent caregiving to interdependent caregiving by engaging the spiritual and emotional aspects of caring for a loved one. Whether you are a daughter or son, a husband or wife, a sibling, long-term partner or good friend, Caresharing offers a multilayered, reciprocal process that will help you keep your spirit--and your loved one's spirit--alive in challenging times.
- Sharing Wisdom: What the Frail Teach the Well
- Sharing Roles: Reinventing Family Roles in Sharing Care
- Sharing "Soul to Soul" A Special Relationship with People with Dementia
- Sharing Grief: Dealing with the Little Losses and the Big Ones
- Sharing Forgiveness: A Key Spiritual Journey
- Sharing Hope and Heart: An Active Process One Step at a Time
Synopsis
Shows how to move from independent to interdependent caregiving, so that the "cared for" and the "carer" share a deep sense of connection. Each has strengths and resources. Each can teach the other. Each can share in grief, hope, love and wisdom.