Publisher: DC Press

With the huge numbers of American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with injuries requiring long-term care -- possibly life-long care, this book (print and electronic versions) provides individuals and their families with a way to create a true tool that can be used by any caregiver who ever works with this person. Since family members might not always be available to be the caregiver in a veterans life, this guide will provide even a total caring stranger with a lifetime of knowledge, information and guidance on what the individual desires in the way of caregiving. This book, when completed, will tell all who use it every important fact about them: how I feel about life support, my favorite foods, the TV programs I dislike, how I'd like to have my obituary read, and my funeral conducted. When the time comes that a once vibrant individual required round-the-clock caregiving, and may not have a voice left o speak with -- this book can be that voice tell all who use it everything you want known.

About Dee Marrella

Dee Marrella experienced caregiving up close and personal when her mother entered a nursing home in the early 1990's. This book resulted from those experiences. The wife of a military officer, she traveled the world and became familiar with a multitude of cultures. She spent twenty-two years as an educator in the United States and Europe.