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Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill by Cappy Capossela and Sheila Warnock, featuring a foreword by Sukie Miller, offers a unique solution to the often confusing and overwhelming challenges of caregiving by suggesting a caregiving team. Capossela and Warnock write confidently on the difficult subject of caring for a seriously ill loved one.

Beginning with the case that launched their method—that of a terminally ill cancer patient friend—their hopeful tone will help  caregivers move past the fear of a fearsome illness and into realistic, well-organized advice and instructions for assembling and organizing a caregiver "Funny Family" made up of friends, family members, neighbors, coworkers, and other acquaintances depending on  the reader’s own situation.

The Share the Care system is suitable for recent or longtime caregivers and for short or long-term care. It guarantees every job will be done without any one person doing too much."You don't have to do things you don't want to do, you don't have to do things you are afraid to do, you don't have to do things you feel you're not good at," say Capossella and Warnock. "The power is in the group. Among all of you is the solution to any problem."

Besides valuable insight, this book includes a simple-to-use workbook section containing all of the forms (sample, paper, or online) the user would ever need to maintain communication and organization within the group.

The workbook also addresses the emotional as well as the logistical aspects of caregiving by providing reassurance, emotional bonding exercises, the do's and don’ts of conversation with people with terminal illnesses, and more. The 2004 revision of the popular 1995 edition also includes new information on professional help and long-distance care. A directory of helpful associations, books, web sites, newsletters, and magazines conclude the book.

In the crowded field of caregiving manuals and guides, Share the Care stands out for its simultaneous accessibility as a reference and meticulous coverage of every phase and eventuality of a sensitive situation. Its highly structured approach makes it invaluable in a crisis, medical or otherwise. Share the Care is essential for popular medical collections, hospital and public libraries of any size, social workers, chaplains, gerontologists, psychologists, counselors, and anyone with a situation on their hands. This highly readable, modifiable, step-by-step "how to" book offers a practical, compassionate answer to friends’ and family’s number-one question: "What can I do?"

Publisher: Fireside
Publish date: October 26, 2004
368 pages
ISBN-10: 0743262689
ISBN-13: 978-0743262682