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You don't have to walk this path alone.

Our curated book list offers the knowledge, comfort, and strategies you need to thrive as a caregiver.

Recommended Books for Family Caregivers

  • A Caregiver's Companion by Deborah A. Boyle

  • A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease: 300 tips for making life easier by Patricia R. Kudlacek, Connie Vasiloff and Barbara C. Callone

  • A Caregiver’s Survival Guide: How to stay healthy when your loved one is sick by Kay Marshall Strom

  • Alzheimer’s Action Plan: The Experts’ guide to the best diagnosis and treatment for memory problems by P. Murali Doraiswamy M.D., Lisa P. Gwyther M.S.W. and Tina Adler

  • Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out by Richard Taylor

  • Alzheimer’s: Caring for your loved one, caring for yourself by Sharon Fish

  • The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care: "A dignified life" by Virginia Bell and David Troxel

  • The Best Friend’s Book of Alzheimer’s Activities, Vol. 1 by Virginia Bell, David Troxel, Tonya M. Cox and Robin Hamon

  • The Caregiver Helpbook: Powerful tools for caregivers by Marilyn Cleland, Vicki L. Schmall, Marilynn Studervant and Leslie Congleton

  • Coach Broyles’ Playbook for Alzheimer’s Caregivers: A practical tips guide by Frank Broyles

  • Comfort for the Grieving Hearts by Gary Roe

  • The Conscious Caregiver: A Mindful Approach to Caring for Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself by Linda Abbit

  • Coping in New Territory: The handbook for Children of aging parents by Suzanne Roberts

  • The Dementia Caregiver's Survival Guide: An 11-Step Plan to Understand the Disease and How To Cope with Financial Challenges, Patient Aggression, and Depression Without Guilt, Overwhelm, or Burnout by Janet G. Cruz

  • The 36-Hour Day: A family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, related dementing illnesses and memory loss in later life by Nancy L. Mace and Peter V. Rabins

  • Elder Rage, or Take my Father…Please! How to survive caring for aging parents by Jacqueline Marcell and Rodman Shankle

  • Failure Free Activities for the Alzheimer’s Patient: A guidebook for caregivers by Carmel Sheridan

  • The Fearless Caregiver by Greg Barg

  • Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s by Lauren Kessler (Also known as "Dancing with Rose")

  • Gentlecare: Changing the experience of Alzheimer’s in a positive way by Moyra Jones

  • Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa TerKeurst

  • Hope for the Caregiver by Peter Rosenberger

  • I’m Still Here: A new philosophy of Alzheimer’s care by John Zeisel

  • Inside Alzheimer’s by Nancy D. Pearce

  • The Itty Bitty Dementia Book by Tam Cummings

  • Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s by Joanne Koenig Coste and Robert Butler

  • Living with Grief: Who we are, how we grieve by Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson

  • Love Remembers: Holding on to Hope and Faith in the Face of Early Onset Alzheimer’s by Kathe Ambrose Goodwin (May 2022)

  • Mothering Mother: A Daughter’s humorous and heartbreaking memoir by Carol D. O’Dell

  • Moving a Relative with Memory Loss: A family caregivers guide by Laurie White and Beth Spenser

  • My Parent's Keeper by Jody Gastfriend

  • My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver by Martin J. Schreiber and Cathy Breitenbucher

  • Navigating Alzheimer's by Melanie Cutillo

  • Staying Afloat in a Sea of Forgetfulness: Common Sense Caregiving by Gary Joseph LeBlanc

  • Still Alice by Lisa Genova

  • Therapeutic Caregiving by Barbara J. Bridges and Jaime Termairk

  • Untangling Alzheimer's by Tam Cummings

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