
The Caregiving Trap
Solutions for Life’s Unexpected Changes
by Pamela D. Wilson
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Pub Date Oct 06 2015 | Archive Date Aug 23 2015
Description
Common caregiving issues include:
A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships
Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs
Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm
Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices
Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy
Advance Praise
Today is the time to make connections with our parents before time passes. Time also for the conversation of care, years before care is needed.” Pamela Wilson asks the reader to appreciate the fragility of life by valuing our relationships, and to take a proactive stance by realizing that how we live now will shape the future as we age. She offers a toolbox of strategies to help the caregiver move forward with foresight, knowledge, and skills to plan for the future. ---Tina Wells, MA, Alzheimer’s Association Colorado
Pamela Wilson has provided us with an information-rich, enormously detailed and practical, very deeply personal, and even fearless exploration and understanding of the all-too-often simply overwhelming care-giving process. It will be a book---like her practice phone number---that I keep within close reach in my own office, and imagine sharing with patients and their families for years to come. ---Jay Schneiders, PhD., ABPP, Clinical Neuropsychologist & Health Psychologist
There is a phrase from Pamela Wilson’s new book "The Caregiving Trap" that says it all: “Logic is absent from many caregiving situations as emotions take over the driver’s seat.” Being a nurse who has been a caregiver for over 40 years, I wish I had found Pamela’s book much earlier in my life. Caring for elders is a special skill. Over the last 15 years while caring for my own aging parents, I have encountered absolutely wonderful, patient souls who clearly have a gift with this population. But the trick for the rest of us is to listen to these knowledgeable folks. Pamela is an expert who has provided heartfelt, concrete advice to guide others through this challenging process. ---Patricia A. Herlily, Ph.D., R.N., Rocky Mountain Research
No one is more experienced or knowledgeable in helping caregivers and care recipients than Pamela Wilson. Pamela is an educator and a professional caregiver. She knows what works and her advice is more than theory, it has been tested in practical application. ---John J. Horan, CMSP/CFSP, Horan & McConaty
This book is a must read not only for any health professional interacting with the elderly and disabled individuals but also for any adult who could possibly find themselves in a care giving situation or the recipient of caregiving now or in the future. Pamela’s personal and professional experience, along with extensive research, offers a compassionate, perceptive and detailed resource. Familiar scenarios, probing questions, and realistic options are presented, all with the end goal of better quality of life for both the recipient of care and the caregiver. ---Linda Warwick, RN Hospice and Alternative Therapy Practitioner
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781630475352 |
PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews

As a caregiver myself, I could relate to so much in this most informative book.
The title is apt
The caregiving Trap
Of course, you love the person you are caring for. You want what's best for them, but sometimes it is a trap For many of us caregivers, we didn't choose to become caregivers, it just "came" upon us. And many of us do not have a choice.
We loose our independence, we loose our self worth, we loose the original relationship we had with the caree because we become known as the Caree and the Caregiver.
Self of identity is sometimes lost.
YES its a rewarding job, but its also an exhausting job, not just physically but mentally too.
Stress heaps up on us and we have hardly any free time to call our own.
This book points out how to respect YOU and take time for YOURSELF and this is not a selfish act, its a vital point to survival and the caregivers HEALTH.
The need to encase yourself with some aides to caring is vital.
I had been caring for over 20 years ALONE until the last 6 years when I had to appeal against something medical and they looked at ME, yes ME, and realized I got no help.
Now I see that along with how this author Pamela Wilson says, we need to make sure we are heard and that we need assistance to get some free time for ourselves.
This is a very informative book that I so wish I had 30 years ago.
Highly recommended to anyone, because anyone could end up caring, it could be for any relative or friend.
Let it be your carers Bible.
** I thank Morgan James Publishing via Net Galley for my copy of reading and reviewing this book **