Multicultural Guide to Caregiving: Essential resources to help you balance traditions without losing your mind or money - Couverture souple

Herrera Venson DrPH, Angelica P

 
9781649533203: Multicultural Guide to Caregiving: Essential resources to help you balance traditions without losing your mind or money

Synopsis

Are you part of the sandwich generation caring for an aging parent? Do you grapple with the challenge of navigating culturally embedded expectations around elder care and your own life's demands?

Author and gerontologist, Angelica P. Herrera Venson, DrPH, opens up and shares her family's personal stories and lessons from her field work and research on aging and caregiving with communities of color and first generation Americans.

Multicultural Guide to Caregiving is an easy-to-follow, must-have book for family caregivers that covers the essential social programs and aging services that every caregiver needs to know.

Here’s just some of what is featured in this book to help you on this journey:

  • Understand the cultural traditions and demographic changes that have shaped your caregiving role
  • Get the latest, most reliable tools to search for local caregiving resources and aging services
  • Access critical social benefits such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food benefits, housing and more
  • Maximize your elder’s financial resources, while taking care of yours FIRST
  • Make important decisions around the senior's housing and living arrangements
  • Manage care for elders living abroad and know when and how to relocate them
  • Prepare for any crisis

In Multicultural Guide to Caregiving, Dr. Angelica P. Herrera Venson provides a wealth of resources that caregivers can tap into to manage elder care with confidence and no regrets. It provides help for minorities and immigrant families to be considered and qualify for programs. Above all, it will help caregivers gain confidence knowing they have support and are not alone in their struggles.

Learn. Prepare. Stay Positive.

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