The Invisible Patient Book
Compassion Fatigue
is a Real Thing
Often, adult children/primary caregiver feel overwhelmed, angry, resentful, and burned out caregiving for a loved one and then feel guilty. Caregiving without a plan will derail your relationships (at home, with your siblings, and the care recipient), your career, finances, and your emotional and physical health. Caregivers often feel alone and isolated because caregiving has become a full time job and most caregivers were thrust into the role of caregiving and feel ill-prepared. Many family caregivers eventually realize what they are doing is not sustainable or safe.
This book is jam packed with tools, scripts, insights, and checklists for family caregivers.
Caregiving CAN be a positive experience for everyone IF there is an Aging Plan in place.
When you communication effectively as a family, when you understand the disease you are caring for, and when you understand care options and the costs of care you can learn how to navigate aging, caregiving, and dementia.
You may find yourself either reading this book cover to cover or just focusing on pertinent chapters. This book was written to meet families wherever you are in your caregiving journey.
Everyone knows someone in the aging journey - we all are! We also know that most families don't talk about the "what whens" of aging like:
- Who will provide care?
- How will we pay for care?
- What is our plan when Mom’s dementia progresses?
- What happens if the primary caregiver gets ill or dies?
This book is PACKED with ‘how to’s” and do it yourself tools to develop your own Aging Plan, facilitate a family meeting, how to interview home care companies and MORE!
From the Founder
Annalee Kruger, Founder of Care Right Inc
Annalee Kruger has spent her entire 30+ year career in the senior care industry and has become a nationally recognized expert in the field of senior care planning. An accomplished national speaker, podcast host and corporate trainer, she has presented at hundreds of healthcare, senior housing, financial conferences and webinars.
Growing up, Annalee witnessed firsthand her parents transitioning from being adult children to caretakers once her grandparents, who resided in her home, needed more hands on care. From an early age, she wanted to be a social worker in order to serve families with aging loved ones. Annalee has dedicated her life to helping families have the best possible outcomes, whether through her family and senior care planning consulting, her speaking engagements and training seminars, or by training financial advisors on identifying and addressing the needs of their clients.
Annalee resides in Southwest Florida, but has provided virtual consulting services since 2011 through her two companies Care Right and Plan4Life. While Care Right provides comprehensive aging planning, crisis management, and coaching; Plan4Life focuses on instructing financial planners on how to better identify and address the needs of their aging clients and the clients who are likely to be the family caregiver.