Awakening: Eldercare - Interviews With Compelling People By Connie Shaw

Suzanne Shaw of Danville, Indiana, is a gifted medical intuitive and intuitive life-coach who is a self-employed single woman, and an only child, who moved from Colorado to a small rural community to care for her eighty-seven-year-old widowed mother, Kathleen. Topics: Demands on the caregiver * Local senior centers * Federal and state agency resources * Free services * Respite care * Groceries * Cleaning * State Council on Aging * Military benefits through USAA * AARP help * Meals: Seattle Sutton; Meals on Wheels; Jenny Craig; Hospital Dietitian; Cook-ahead meals; Freeze extras; Soups; Health food store frozen dinners * Legal help: you MUST have a great lawyer * The Living Will * The Will * Power of Attorney * Medical Power of Attorney * Carry all medical papers to all appointments. * Use only bonded and insured services. * Have credit card info on file at the pharmacy. * Insurance * Six floods in five years (no backwater insurance). $30,000 damage bill vs. $40.00. * Earthquake insurance *