Caregivers and Personal Assistants: How to Find, Hire and Manage the People Who Help You (Or Your Loved One!)

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Summary: Great resource for busy people
Review: As a sole adult responsible for my elderly mother, I found DeGraff's book to be my best friend. Prior to getting this book, I felt like a ship at sea without a rudder. Now I have direction, confidence, and clarity when it comes to making decisions for her and for me. It is a resource that offered great ideas and perspective to support her quality of life, at the same time,ensuring my own quality of life.

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Summary: Information you hope you won't need
Review: As an aging baby boomer, I read this book hoping that I wouldn't need the information in it. But if I do, this will be the only reference I will need. DeGraff covers everything you could (and couldn't) think of when it comes to using Personal Assistants. His candor and completeness make this book stand above any others in this field. This book deals with an emotional issue without being emotional and applies logic to an area where people may not be coping logically.

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Summary: Caregivers and Personal Assistants
Review: As indicated by the title, this book gives you all the information you need to "Find, Hire and Manage the People Who Help You (or your Loved One!). The author speaks from profound personal experience of his more than 30 years of living as a high level quadriplegic. As one who has know Mr. DeGraff since early in that experience, I have followed him as he has gone through rehabilitation, college, graduate school and beyond to where he is today and can readily vouch for his abilities. No detail has been left out of this remarkable publication.

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Summary: Caregivers and Personal Assistants by DeGraff
Review: Finally, DeGraff has a new book! He is THE authority on personal care assistance, and I trust his experience, wisdom and advice. We have waited for this new edition for several years, and we find it chocked full of practical how-to's. This is a must for families seeking advice on managing care at home, for students and for health care workers. This book should be required reading for legislators and public policy advocates because this provides REAL information for real-life settings; and it reminds us that legislation MUST support independent living and home care. With the graying of America, more and more people are going to realize the value of living at home with effectively managed personal care. Agency care often does not work and it certainly does not promote the care recipients' need for independence, respect and wholesomeness. Managing care at home provides sensible and healthy options -- and DeGraff's expertise and advice shows how to go about it. This is learning from the best!

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Summary: Caregivers and Personal Assistants
Review: Finally, DeGraff has a new book! He is THE authority on personal care assistance, and I trust his experience, wisdom and advice. We have waited for this new edition for several years, and we find it chocked full of practical how-to's. This is a must for families seeking advice on managing care at home, for students and for health care workers. This book should be required reading for legislators and public policy advocates because this provides practical, up-to-date, relevant information for real-life settings; and it reminds us that legislation must support independent living and home care. With the graying of America, more and more people are going to realize the value of living at home with effectively managed personal care. Agency care often does not work, and it is not aimed at promoting the care recipients' need for independence, respect and wholesomeness. Managing care at home provides sensible and healthy options -- and DeGraff's expertise and advice shows how to go about it. This is learning from the best! Margaret A. Short, Ph.D.

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Summary: Caregivers and Personal Assistants: How to Find, Hire and M
Review: Not being handicapped, I found this book to be a thought provoking look at how to hire and manage the people you would need to do this job. It also struck me that you are really running your own small business resulting in a very personal benefit to yourself or those you love. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is handicapped or has been recently. It also made me aware of the need for everyone to read this that will soon face the fact that their loved ones are aging and want to avoid nursing homes as much as possible. I have this book and will refer to it indefinitely. Informative reading!!

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Summary: Take Charge!
Review: This book helped me understand that I'm the one in charge. The caregivers work for me and I see now that I need to take more control of the situations. It's a great resource for all aspects of people management.

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Summary: Treasure of Facts and Helps
Review: This book is a treasure of facts and helps for any family member, friend, or professional seeking caregiver/personal assistant care for another, or for an individual seeking such care for him/herself. The book is reader friendly and proceeds in logical steps. The information is practical and useable. Compassion for and insight into the feelings of the care receiver are a part of the writing and this is invaluable to all as they move through the process of finding caregiver/personal assistants. The author "thought of everything" and addresses every question one could have because he has been in the situation of finding care for himself and knows what does and does not work. His expertise and information will be a welcome and comprehensive guide to anyone who needs to find, hire and manage caregiver or personal assistant help.

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Summary: Managing Personal Assistants
Review: This book is written by someone who knows what he is talking about. It is not only useful for people with long term disabilities. It is also useful for those recuperating at home, seniors (or the children of seniors looking for alternatives to sending a parent to a nursing home) as well as the terminally ill.

Because it is written from the perspective of the person receiving the caregiver service, it is an invaluable training resource for agency staff, nurses, case managers, counselors and educators.

The information in this book allows the service recipient to control the process of hiring caregivers and receive care in a respectful, dignified manner. There are excellent suggestions to address stress and burnout to family and friends.

Clearly, DeGraff has spent a lot of time and energy studying this issue and adressing strategies to empower people in difficult circumstances.