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The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices for Those Who Can't

by Viki Kind

A framework for difficult caregiving decisions

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A framework for difficult caregiving decisions

When someone’s ability to make decisions is limited, choices about daily life, care settings, and medical treatment can carry significant ethical and practical weight. Viki Kind’s book lays out an adaptable decision-making framework, with strategies and questions intended to help caregivers consider the individual’s circumstances and give voice to their preferences. Personal stories illustrate the tools, and the second edition adds 40 pages from The Caregiver’s Path Workbook. The book also devotes expanded guidance to end-of-life decisions, placing respect and compassion at the center of its approach.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Family caregivers making decisions for someone with dementia, brain injury, or another condition affecting capacity.
  • Professionals supporting people with varying degrees of mental capacity.
  • Readers seeking practical questions and a structured approach to caregiving decisions.

Themes

Caregiving and decision-makingMental capacity and autonomyEthics, respect, and compassionMedical and end-of-life choices

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Book overview

This award-winning book guides families and professionals who are making decisions for those with varying degrees of mental capacity. (New 2nd edition includes 40 bonus pages from The Caregiver's Path Workbook.) Viki adaptable system for making choices comes as much from her heart as from her extensive experience as a bioethicist. KindEthics.com

About the book:

You know how difficult--even heartbreaking--it can be to make decisions for someone with dementia, stroke, Parkinson's, developmental disability, mental illness, or other brain injury. Feeling confident that you've made the right decision would be a welcome relief from the worry and guilt you may be feeling.

The Caregiver's Path is an invaluable resource for caregivers struggling to make the right decisions, whether it's taking away the car keys, moving to a long-term care facility or making the difficult medical and end-of-life choices.

Readers will learn the framework and tools to create a good, ethical decision. These tools will help give voice to those who can't speak for themselves. The book provides specific strategies and questions to use along the decision making pathway. Respect and compassion are the core values of this decision making process.

This is not a one-size-fits-all solution but can be adapted depending on the individual's level of incapacity and the situation. Throughout the book are personal and real-life stories to help illustrate these tools. At the end of the book, Viki gives expanded end-of-life guidance for making the most difficult decisions.

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Booklist

Journal of Hospital Librarianship.

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Alzheimer's Association

NAMI Advocate - National Alliance on Mental Illness

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Center

Muscular Dystrophy Association

McKnight's Long Term Care News

Dementia Australia

Well Spouse Association

Pain Management Nursing Journal

Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States

Employee Assistance Report

Southern California Physician Magazine

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