Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents, by Claire Berman. (Henry Holt, 1997 (paperback), 272 pp., $16.00). This widely read book is a guide for adult children who are caregivers for their aging or ill parents.

Associations and Contact Information:

CAPP Caregiver Resource Center at Mount Sinai Hospital: Contact Helene Ebenstein at (212) 659-8903. She welcomes calls from family caregivers on any caregiving concern. Address: 1425 Madison Avenue, Room L-4-89, New York, NY 10029.

National Family Caregivers Association
10605 Concord St. Suite 501
Kensington MD 20895 2504
301 942 6430
800 896 3650
website www.nfcacares.org
email: info@nfcacares.org

Provides national resource referrals, a quarterly newsletter, a caregiver-to-caregiver peer support network, a greeting card program and sponsors annual celebrations of National Family Caregivers Week.


Family Caregiver Alliance
425 Bush Street Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 434-3388
800 445-8106 (toll free in CA)
website www.caregiver.org

Support organization for caregivers of adults with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, ALS and related brain disorders.