Resource Documents


Books
 The Complete Eldercare Planner - Where to start, which questions to ask and how to find help, by Joy Loverde 

• Effective Planning 
• Creating a Care Team 
• Be Kind to Yourself 
• Communicating 
• Emergency Preparedness 
• Money Matters 
• Legal Matters 
• Insurance 
• Housing 
• Safe and Secure 
• Transportation and Mobility 
• Managing Medical Care 
• Quality of Life 
• Death and Dying 
• Access Now 
• Checklists and Worksheets 

The Fragile Years- Proven Strategies for the Care of Aging Loved Ones, by Amy Cameron O’Rourke, Book and YouTube Series - WEBSITE 

• A Crisis for the Aging Like No Other 
• Recognizing Your Loved One’s Entry Into the Fragile Years 
• Finding a Caring Place for Your Parent’s Fragile Years 
• The Home Care Option 
• Caring for the Memory Impaired and Others with Special Challenges 
• Pharmageddon: Prescriptions for Disaster 
• Stopping Repeated Hospitalizations and Over treatment 
• Finding Your Way Through the Maze of Health care Insurance and VA Benefits 
•  Providing End of Life Care with Compassion and Grace 



Let’s Talk about Aging Parents - A real Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations, by Laura Tamblyn Watts 

• Part 1 - The house, home care, and moving out 
• Part 2 - Mental capacity, power of attorney, and safety 
• Part 3 - Love, loss, and hopefully some laughs 
• Part 4 - Health, hearing issues, and horrible driving 

When your Aging Parent Needs Help - A geritrician’s step-by-step guide to memory loss, resistance, safety worries, and more. by Leslie Kernisan and Paula Spencer Scott 

• Taking Stock 
  • Chapter 1 -Get the Facts on the Situation 
  • Chapter 2 - Get Your Parent’s Take 
    • Taking Aim 
      • Chapter 3 - Learn the Ideal Approach 
      • Chapter 4 - Realize Why the Ideal Is Usually Hard 
      • Taking Action 
        • Chapter 5 - Plan your Next Steps, And Try Them 
        • Chapter 6 - Use These Workarounds for Common Obstacles 
      • Take the Long View 
        • Chapter 7 - Try This When You Feel Really Stuck 
        • Chapter 8 - Equip Yourself for the lArger Journey of Helping Your Aging Parent 
      • Resources 
        • Downloadable Cheatsheets 

Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living, by Liz O'Donnell (Author) 

I’m Still Here, John Zeisel, Ph.D. 

Forget Me Not, Debra Kostiw 

Where The Light Gets In,  Kimberly Williams-Paisley 

Nana Nana , Nate Bertone (children’s book) 

The Invisible Patient, Annalee Kruger 

Videos

Amy Cameron Rourke - Author of the Fragile Years: Amy O’Rourke has worked in the field of aging since high school. She volunteered in nursing homes in high school, and upon college graduation worked for seven years as an activities director in nursing homes and continuing care retirement communities. After graduate school, she became an administrator of health services and a licensed nursing home administrator in a continuing care retirement community for nine years. She owned and operated The Cameron Group, a full-service care management company, for twenty years and is currently working as director of care management for Arosa and owner of O’Rourke and Associates, a public benefits specialist company. She is a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year award, a TEDx speaker, and the former president of the Aging Life Care Association. A powerful speaker who’s YouTube channel helps caregivers help to become partners with parents and loved ones during the aging process.  - Link to YouTube Channel 

• The First Stage of The Fragile Years  
• Take Control When Your Parents Are in the Hospital 
• Hire a Case Manager 
• Caring for Parents with Memory Impairments 
• Open and Honest Communications 
• Caring for elders when less is more - Ted Talk 
• We are in this Together 
• Common Concerns of Older people 
• Parent with Dementia  

Pamela D Wilson Website: Pamela Wilson is a caregiving expert, advocate, and speaker who offers subject matter expertise and support to family caregivers, professionals, and organizations. Since 1999, Pamela has provided direct service to families, individuals, caregivers, clinical and social care providers, insurance professionals, elder law and estate planning attorneys, and financial and wealth planners.  Her subject matter expertise is in critical and post-acute care, long-term care, care management, care navigation, caregiver support, elder care, legal and financial appointments, and estate administration. 

Pamela Wilson’s Caregiver’s Library offers a Youtube channel with videos on a variety of relevant topics, that provides solutions not advertisements on products.  LINK 

• Online course for Caregivers - LINK  
• The Caring Generation® Caregiver Podcast:  Episodes feature a wide range of caregiving, health, financial, and legal topics relevant to care associated with aging and health.  LINK 

Websites/Articles

• Better Health While Aging (formerly Geriatrics for Caregivers) – Practical information on aging health and on helping older parents. Includes information on healthy aging, preventing falls, medication safety, managing Alzheimer’s, planning for end-of-life, and coping with common caregiving challenges. 
  • How to Promote Brain Health: The Healthy Aging Checklist, Part 1, Learn more
  • How to Promote Physical Health While Aging: The Healthy Aging Checklist Part 2 https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/how-to-promote-physical-health-for-healthy-aging/
  • 7 Commonly Neglected Problems to Address for Healthier Aging:The Healthy Aging Checklist Part 3 https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/7-commonly-neglected-problems-to-address-healthy-aging/
  • How to Age Better by Optimizing Chronic Conditions:The Healthy Aging Checklist Part 4 https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/optimizing-chronic-conditions-healthy-aging-checklist-part-4/
  • 27 Recommended Preventive Health Services for Older Adults: the Healthy Aging Checklist Part 5 https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/preventive-health-services-for-older-adults-healthy-aging-checklist-part-5/
  • Addressing Medical, Legal, & Financial Advance Care Planning:The Healthy Aging Checklist Part 6 -  https://betterhealthwhileaging.net/addressing-medical-legal-financial-advance-care-planning-healthy-aging-checklist-part-6/

• Daughterhood - Very few people plan for the all-encompassing role of family caregiver. When it hits, the impact affects everyone. Daughterhood strives to help family caregivers feel supported and not alone. With almost a decade of personal interactions with family caregivers, we understand every step of caregiving and all of the emotions that come with it. Daughterhood sees firsthand the struggles of finding affordable and reliable resources and offers free, virtual, and easily accessible “circles” where caregivers can take a ‘deep dive’ into specific areas, including dementia, care transitions, navigating resources and aspects of care to share and learn from each other in a more flexible format about all aspects of caregiving. . - Link 

• Pamela D Wilson & The Caregiving Generation: The Caring Generation represents Pamela’s mission of reaching one million caregivers worldwide to provide help, support, and online education. - Website and Youtube Series on Caretaking and Aging Loved Ones Issues, Resources and Advice - Link 

• SoloAllies.com - SoloAllies.com is a website that provides a directory of professionals who help seniors plan for aging alone. Learn more about the range of national services available and the range of topics from housing to healthcare to legal and financial supports. Leanr more

• THE TELLEGACY PROGRAM: Discover the potential of a conversation. Research has shown that loneliness and social isolation can result in long-term negative health outcomes. The intergenerational Tellegacy program helps keep older adults connected. https://tellegacy.org/ 

• The Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Website includes local resources and helpful advice on many topics. https://www.alz.org/ 

• Founded in 1961, The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) is a nationwide grassroots network dedicated to fighting Parkinson’s disease (PD) and works tirelessly to help the approximately one million with PD in the United States live life to the fullest in the face of this chronic, neurological disorder.  https://www.apdaparkinson.org/ 

• Web MD - https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/what-to-know-about-dehydration-in-older-adults 

• National Institute of Health - Taking Care of Yourself: Tips for Caregivers https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/caregiving/taking-care-yourself-tips-caregivers