Books, Blogs and Podcasts Resources

Books

• Callanan, M., & Kelley, P. (1992).  Final gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs, and communications of the dying.  Simon & Schuster.
• Doka, K. J. (Ed.) (2016). Living with grief when illness is prolonged.  Taylor & Francis.
• Dunn, H. (2016).  Hard choices for loving people: CPR, feeding tubes, palliative care, comfort measures, and the patient with a serious illness (6^th).  Quality of Life Publishing Company.
• Gawande, A. (2017).  Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end.
• Schreiber, M. J., & Breitenbucher, C. (2022).  My two Elaines: Learning, coping, and surviving as an Alzheimer’s caregiver.  Harper Horizon.
• Byock, I. (2014).  The four things that matter most: A book about living.  Atria Books; Simon and Schuster.

 

Podcasts

• End-of-Life University (Dr. Karen Wyatt)
• Mindfulness and Grief (Heather Stang)
• Widow Cast (Joann Filomena)
• Build a Life After Loss (Julie Cluff)
• What’s Your Grief (Eleanor Haley & Lisa Williams)
• Terrible, Thanks for Asking (Nora McInerny)
• Daughterhood the Podcast (Rosanne Corcoran)
• Happy Healthy Caregiver (Elizabeth Miller)
• AlzAuthors: Untangling Alzheimer’s & Dementia (Marianne Sciucco)
• Love Your Caregiving Life (Charlotte Bayala)
• People with Parents (Leighann Lord)
• Dementia Care Partner Talk Show with Teepa Snow (Teepa Snow & Greg Phelps)

 

Blogs

• Transition Aging Parents (Dale Carter)
• As Our Parents Age (Marti Weston)
• The Alzheimer’s Reading Room (Bob DeMarco)
• Caregiver Warrior Blog (Susanne White)
• Caregiving Café (Lynn Greenblatt)
• Dementia Today (Jennifer Gerhold)

 

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