Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. List of Contributors xvii
6. 1. Caregiving 1
7. 2. Once, Twice, Always a Caregiver: Career Caregiving for Parents Who Abused Alcohol 43
8. 3. Responding to My Sister’s Addiction: Fostering Resilience in My Nieces 73
9. 4. Caring for My Grandmother: The Birth of a Gerontological Social Worker 101
10. 5. Not an Option but a Duty: Caring for My Mother 134
11. 6. “My Last Born Shall Care for Me and Mine”: Caring for Siblings and Mother 163
12. 7. Caring for My Mother: Four Phases of Caregiving 194
13. 8. Aunt Doris’s Moves 223
14. 9. Closing Muriel’s House: Caring for My Mother 255
15. 10. Social Worker Husband as Caregiver of Social Worker Wife 286
16. 11. What Goes Around Comes Around: Career Caregiving in the Caring Village 307
17. Index 345