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MONTHLY THEME: IN CELEBRATION OF CAREGIVERS
The Tappan Library is pleased to announce A Celebration of Caregivers. The Library would like to thank all of its local caregivers: parents; children; aunts and uncles; nurses; firemen; and more for all you do for our community and your family.
In honor of our community caregivers, Adult Services designed a book display with titles that cover a diverse range of topics of interest from choosing nursing home care to stress management. In addition, we’ve posted a list of resources on our Web site to include area support groups and subject-specific online message boards and articles.
All through the month, we welcome caregivers to share their stories through anecdotes and poetry that we will proudly display in the Adult Services Room alongside our book display.
When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care by Robert F. Bornstein, Ph.D., and Mary A. Languirand, Ph.D.
~Newly revised and updated, this acclaimed, complete guide delivers what people need to know to help an aging loved onea must for all caregivers! Written by two distinguished psychologists for spouses, siblings, and adult children, this frank and highly useful guide is meticulously organized to provide answers, dispel myths, anticipate needs, and provide strategies for dealing with every aspect of in-home and facility care.
~Summary courtesy of Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
When a Family Member Has Dementia: Steps to Becoming a Resilient Caregiver by Susan M. McCurry
~McCurry (psychosocial and community health, U. of Washington) points out that no two people with dementia are alike, and that caregivers must learn to rely on their own creativity and innate resources to help their loved ones. She clearly and honestly describes a number of situations in which caregivers may find themselves and their loved ones, and also shows how caregivers choose to react can affect not only the quality of life for the loved one but also for the caregiver. She gives caregivers tools can use to develop resilience as their loved ones' behaviors change and advises them to practice five core principles: do not argue, accept the disease, nurture yourself, create novel situations, and enjoy the moment. She also provides a list of resources and a bibliography.
~Summary courtesy of Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself by Joan Anderson
~Nearly a decade after the debut of her classic A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson is busy. When she's not on the road helping women search for their true selves, she's working on her latest book. And when she's "not working," she's taking care of her husband, her grown children, her grandchildren, and her mother. Stretched thin from being all things to all people, she doesn't realize how out of control her life has become. Ironically, she finds she needs to listen to her own advice. It takes an intervention-from her best friends, her doctor, and her husband-before she finally wakes up.
~Summary excerpted from book jacket.
Online Databases
The Tappan Library offers access to a variety of health and wellness-related databases that offer up-to-date articles on topics from caring for the caregiver to meeting the needs of care recipients. Medical databases also current article from physicians and other members of the medical community about disease and condition symptoms. To access any of these databases remotely, please visit our homepage at http://www.taplib.org from your PC, Mac, or mobile Internet browser, and from the home page, click on Adult Services tab and then select Databases from the drop-down menu. If you need any assistance, please call the Library at 359-3877, and one of our trained librarians would be happy to walk you through the log-in and search process.
Health & Wellness Resource Center: Type the search term “caregiver” in the green search box and select “full-text” articles. Click SEARCH to receive a list of articles to include:
Care for the caregiver.(Caregiver's Handbook: A guide to caring for the ill, elderly, disabled ... and yourself)
Anne Fabiny, Suzanne Modigliani. Caregiver's Handbook (Harvard Special Health Report). Annual 2007 p40(5). This basic search will return choices to include information from journals; videos; fact sheets; and pamphlets.
MedlinePlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine: This database provides a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, links to active clinical trials, and a directory of local healthcare provides. This site also includes information about prescription (and non-prescription) drugs and supplements.
ProQuest Platinum: ProQuest Platinum is a new database to Tappan. A simple search from the home page on “caregiving” further breaks down the topic as follows: caregivers; caregivers AND families; caregivers AND older people; caregivers AND personal relationships; caregivers AND stress; and caregivers AND elder care. Click on any one of those subject links to further refine your search. A list of articles on the specific topic will be returned. Click on the option for “Full Text” to retrieve links with full articles attached rather than just abstracts.
Local Resources
Alzeimers Association Area Support:
Esplanade-640 | Oak Tree Road | Palisades, NY
Meets 2nd and 4th Thursday at 1:00 pm
Contact: Sarah Ruter at 365-6500
Volunteer Counseling Services of Rockland (VCS) offers a Kinship Caregivers Program that provides counseling services and support for services for kinship caregivers and their families.
VCS Inc of Rockland’s CAREGIVER HOTLINE is available every Wednesday from 12 noon to 1:00 pm. Call Ellie Jacobson at 634-5729, ext. 319.
The Rockland County Office for the Aging offers a list of community support services, which includes Rockland Senior Center programs located across the county, information about home health aids in Rockland County, and Adult day care facilities. The department also publishes a Caregiver newsletter that can be downloaded freely from its Web site (PDF format).
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