Before Winning the Boomers' Trivia award Dyke listed and answered the most important questions that should be answered by Boomers before beginning in-home elder care. Based on 5 1/2 years of experience of in-home elder care for his mom in his home, Dyke related what a prospective eldercare giver needs to know before moving an elderly parent or relative in for elder care.
First, as much good, first-hand information about in-home elder care as possible.
Second, all of the appropriate cost, income and asset information.
Third, what the professional caregivers have to say.
Fourth, information and commitments from as many of the family members as possible regarding what they can contribute, how they can contribute and time they can give.
Fifth, information and product resources that will be needed to be the best caregiver possible.
Dyke's book, Mama Moves In, satisfies all of the requirements. It is a book written by the son, the primary caregiver, of an elderly mom who at age 84 moved in with Dyke and his wife for the last 5 ½ years of her life, so the information is "first hand."
Mama Moves In spells out how to get at all of the cost, income and asset information needed to assess what is available and what will be needed to make it work economically and practically.
Mama Moves In includes advice from professionals in the eldercare field, and provides an organized path to products and research information on aging and the elderly from the internet.
Mama Moves In provides a smart and timely plan for including all of the family in the process and the care. Learn how to most effectively get written commitments from family members to give any and all of the help they can give.
Mama Moves In includes Research CD—a doorway to InformationResearchPro and ProductResearchPro. With them a caregiver can quickly and easily identify and locate the eldercare information and products for the elderly needed at the moment.
InformationResearchPro and ProductResearchPro are organized, database-controlled and internet-resourced research programs for eldercare information and products for the aged and elderly. They can save elder caregiversyou lots of time. As a 24/7 eldercare provider, anything that saves time is wonderful.
More information is provided at http://www.DykePublishing.com.
