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This pioneer book reflects Nancy Kriseman's years of experience, breakthrough insights, and cutting-edge knowledge. It is a true gift to caregivers. -- Mary Erlanger, Ph.D., Geriatric Counselor/Professor

This pioneer book reflects Nancy Kriseman's years of experience, breakthrough insights, and cutting-edge knowledge. It is a true gift to caregivers. -- Mary Erlanger, Ph.D., Geriatric Counselor/Professor The Mindful Caregiver is a book that should be required reading for caregivers. Nancy Kriseman tells this story from the prospective of having been a caregiver herself as well as her years of helping other caregivers. The mortality rate of the so called well spouse is unacceptably high; the high depression rate among caregivers also points to how caregivers often overlook their own needs. Nancy's book offers excellent examples of how to be a mindful caregiver so that diseases, especially Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, do not have two victims: the person with the disease and the caregiver. -- Joyce Simard, MSW, adjunct associate professor at University of Western Sydney, Australia; Geriatric Consultant; Professional Speaker; Author Nancy Kriesman's book is unique and powerful. The Mindful Caregiver offers both personal insights and professional experience on every page. Nancy has been a hands on family caregiver herself for many years, as well as professionally guiding and counseling family caregivers through many challenges in their personal caregiving. Her advice, and the stories she shares, offers a voice that every caregiver can relate to and benefit from reading. -- Connie Goldman, author of Hardship Into Hope: The Rewards of Caregiving Nancy Kriseman's book is full of pragmatic and helpful tools for making caregiving easier, but really, her book is about a new way of being a caregiver. Sharing personal and professional stories, she skillfully describes a more intentional path, one that helps caregivers stay resilient and healthy, not with a pill but with self-awareness. Bravo! -- Pauline Boss, Ph.D., author: Ambiguous Lossand Loving Someone Who Has Dementia A gifted writer mindfully melds personal and professional know-how to encourage and inspire family caregivers. Kriseman's pro-active, positive words honor the spirit of family care relationships while simultaneously acknowledging the losses in providing such intimate care. Her step-by-step guidance will preserve family caregiver strengths. Readers will immediately identify with the poignant well-placed family caregiver quotes from recognition of a problem through end-of-life care. If this was a medication, doctors would be prescribing it to every well-intentioned but understandably overwhelmed family caregiver. -- Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW; co-author of The Alzheimer's Action Plan; director, Duke University's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development's Family Support Program Nancy Kriseman has done a masterful job of applying the cutting edge mental health concept of mindfulness to the emerging public health crisis of caregiver burden. This book combines Nancy's unique perspective based on years of intimate work with her clients and her personal experience as a caregiver for her own beloved mother with Alzheimer 's disease. This book is an essential read for caregivers of the elderly and infirm as well as the professionals who accompany them on this journey. -- Bruce E. Rudisch, M.D., adjunct faculty, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; teaching faculty, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey is an inspirational book that speaks to the spirit, heart, mind, body and soul of both caregivers and their care recipients. Creative, well researched, based on years of personal and professional experience and loaded with solid practical tips, meaningful anecdotes and humorous perspectives, Kriseman's book has a positive, upbeat tone that addresses the benefits as well as the burdens, the pleasures as well as the pitfalls, inherent in the caregiving role. A must read for every caregiver. -- Helen W. Coale, LCSW, LMFT, Atlanta, Georgia

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Nancy L. Kriseman, LCSW, is a geriatric social worker in private practice. She provides counseling, consultation, and educational seminars to family caregivers, and training and presentations to organizations. She has over thirty years of experience working in eldercare, focusing much of her professional career working with family caregivers. She has published numerous articles on aging issues. Her first book, The Caring Spirit Approach to Eldercare: A Training Guide for Professionals and Families, won two national book awards in 2005. She also has been a caregiver to her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and lived with it for seventeen years. Find our more about Nancy at www.nancykriseman.com.

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