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Multicultural guide to caregiving : essential resources to balance traditions without losing your mind or money / Angelica P. Herrera Venson DrPH.
Title:
Multicultural guide to caregiving : essential resources to balance traditions without losing your mind or money / Angelica P. Herrera Venson DrPH.
ISBN:
9781649533203
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[United States?] : Absolute Author Publishing House, [2021]

©2021
Physical Description:
154 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
A special type of person -- Witnessing acts of care and love -- When the tables turn -- Caring in the community -- Marianismo: Cultural obligations of the Mexican Woman -- The predominat female caregiver -- The caregiver's gift: what they give to their loved ones -- Changing attitudes and cultural shifts -- Is institutional care so bad? -- Demographic shifts -- Sandwiched between two generations -- How far away? -- Ditching the guilt-getting help -- Barriers to care -- Standards of care comparisons -- Nursing home perceptions versus reality -- Finding a good nursing home -- Services and approaches that help with healthcare -- The advantages of a geriatric care manager (GCM) -- How the older Americans act (OAA) helps -- Other options for support -- Many sources of public assistance -- Institutional long-term care -- Medicare savings programs -- Saving for a rainy day -- Ways to earn more by increasing your hustle -- Ways to earn more by selling stuff -- Investing your surplus cash -- Alternative sources of cash -- Hard lessons -- Starting a care plan -- Legal matters -- Health issues -- Money, money, money -- What type of help is needed? -- Location, location, location -- More housing options -- Sending money abroad -- Easy ways to send cash in the digital age -- Coordinating care across borders -- When to move seniors closer -- International relocation -- Setting and documenting goals -- Delivering eldercare services -- Health, financial and personal information that caregivers should document -- Plan for emergencies -- The impact of COVID-19 -- Planning for eldercare in the age of COVID-19 -- Caring for the caregiver -- Treating caregiver burnout -- Planning for the final phase of life -- The final plan.
Summary:
"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. 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 and prepare for any crisis." -- Adapted from Amazon.com
OCLC Number:
on1375584012
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