A Manager's Guide to Elder Care and Work

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Summary: A comprehensive, compassionate and elegantly simple guide
Review: This is the most comprehensive guide I've seen so far for the difficult issue of balancing elder care with work duties. It lays out realistic case histories in a way that managers and employees can relate to.

Author John Paul Marosy is a former family caregiver, and has also served as CEO of leading organizations in elder and home health care. He takes a pre-emptive approach to management intervention, proffering simple and elegant ways for managers to avoid, for example, the tension-related blowups that happen when employees are stressed.

He also suggests dialogues that put both managers and employees at ease when discussing what for most people is an intensely personal, family issue. He details how managers can collect resource information that empowers employees to make their own decisions and includes a list of national organizations.

This book should become a resource on every manager's shelf. It's one thing to strive to run a family friendly company and another to run such a company WELL. This book, if utilized properly, could save a lot of jobs and well being.

Christina L. Pappas Managing Editor Worcester Business Journal, Worcester, MA 4/14/99