Carol Bradley Bursack, author of Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. Order this resource for caregivers about caring for the senior or elderly parent.

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It is the mission of Minding Our Elders to shine a light on the isolation often felt by caregivers and seniors and to give them a voice. The book Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories was written to support the work of family caregivers. Founder and owner of Minding Our Elders Carol Bradley Bursack assures caregivers and seniors that they aren't alone. Through speaking and writing, she strives to truly carry the message that help is available for them.

Carol Bradley Bursack's Minding our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories is a portable support group, a reminder you aren't alone. Each story about caring for the elderly is self-contained; each person telling his or her story knows your pain in watching a loved one suffer, the joy of giving of oneself, and the emotional and physical exhaustion of the whole experience. It is an intimate and powerful resource for caregivers, filled with true stories about seniors and aging parents. Click here for purchase information.

It's the hope of the author that Minding Our Elders will become wrinkled from use, coffee stained, tear stained and written in. A teddybear to hold on to when the going gets rough. May you also find some shared humor and pass on any comfort you can. There is great need of it.

Whether you are a baby boomer, part of the sandwich generation, a spousal caregiver or any combination of the three, you will find help on this site, and on the Minding Our Elders BLOG. Give caregivers you know a copy of this book. It's a way to show that you, too, understand.

Another way breaking the isolation is to get outside help so the primary caregiver can get away for some self-care. There are good agencies in nearly every area of the country that can deliver care to the home. There are also adult day services and other care options. For nuts and bolts help with hands-on care, use trusted agencies that require background checks, require proper degrees of training and offer flexibility, I advise people to seek help from Eldercare Link.

If you would like to order Minding Our Elders at a bulk rate, for business premiums or gifts to caregiver's groups, please e-mail Carol.

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	God bless you, Carol. It is people like you who are doing so much more for people like me than I could ever do...you have helped to define caregiving in the highest of terms, full of love, compassion and understanding. You, in turn, are continuing to help caregivers understand that they need to care about themselves, too.

Leah Jones, Person with dementia

An Enormous Gift to Caregivers and Caregivers to be
This book is far more than a delightfully well-written collection of inspiring stories.... The book really seems to prepare one for something one can't prepare for!!...It's quite brilliant...through a collection of vividly told stories, the reader has actually been there, ...with differing elders, personalities, needs, wishes, emotions, settings, timetables, etc.. .all are unique, yet all are similar in that they are all trial and error on the caregivers part...uncharted waters you will just get into ...but the hope of the book (to me) is that the caregiver finds out there is no right way....far too many forces are at play... beyond the caregivers control...so you suck it up, do the best you can.. ..and don't fight natural events and ones desire to have done a better job. Readers are really lifted with more confidence, less guilt, and the definite feeling of not being alone. You will learn that you are not going to be perfect, but you can get the job done by doing the best you can. We can't be Carol, but we can learn from her going before us. What a friend to all caregivers. What a gift she has given us.

Skip Jones, Human Service Professional and family caregiver


	Carol, How does one begin to thank you for all your insight-your information that you give each and everyone of us. I find it most useful with my parents and also the home Helpers that I work with because I deal with mostly elderly people who I love. I just wanted you to know that you are a God sent person in each of our lives and I appreciate you!

Blessings, Celeste Flanagan


	America's Baby Boomers will become increasingly familiar with the challenge of elder care. Carol Bursack's compassionate stories help chart this difficult territory.

Eric Maisel, Ph.D.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Author of both fiction and non-fiction

I intended to 'leaf through' Minding Our Elders and ended up being pulled in to it. I read the entire book in one sitting. I have great respect for writers that can weave words together in a manner that creates not only a picture in your mind, but invokes the emotion of the heart and soul of the reader. You may never know how many hearts you touch with this book, Carol, but you will be blessed in many unforeseen ways for this contribution. It speaks to the reality of elder care issues with an honest look into the small moments that change each of us on this path.

Barbara Mascio, Senior Approved Services


	"I've always looked to books for the answers and Carol Bradley Bursack's book Minding Our Elders was there at the very time that I needed the emotional support necessary to confront the prospect of aging parents... there is such comfort in knowing that one is not alone and that others have been able to successfully and compassionately deal with this difficult life transition."