About the Book
OMG! I’m the Grown-Up! A Conversation on Giving-Care to a Loved One...And Yourself shares the story about how a journey through Alzheimer’s dementia led to a strategy that transformed a mother-daughter relationship. Before becoming her mother’s primary care-giver, Dr. Yarbrough and her mother didn’t get along very well. They learned that the best way to get along was to live separately. However, the arrival of Alzheimer’s dementia and a detour through breast cancer challenged her to choose how she wanted to live.
This book provides care-givers with a strategy for navigating care journeys, the Praxis for Care. Through self-reflection exercises, the care-giver will identify what they need to continue caring for a loved one and develop a plan for doing so.
Introducing the Praxis for Care
My book introduces the Praxis for Care, a strategy that has 3 goals:
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Help people caring for a loved one make decisions and take actions that are satisfying to both people
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Do the best one can do within the circumstances at hand
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Live life fully with no regrets.
This book engages care-givers in self-reflection exercises for creating a care relationship that meets the needs of both the care-giver and care recipient.
The Praxis for Care encourages care-givers to think about what they want from the care relationship then develop a plan to actualize it.