Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity

The inspiration to write Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity comes from the years I spent as a community outreach social worker in dementia care. It can go back even further to when I was providing care while witnessing my father’s decline, living his last four years with dementia. I observed then, having a strong grief background, that just as in my own experience, the family caregivers I was serving were grieving even though no one had physically died. Rather, they were grieving the loss of their family member to the illness.