Isbn: 9798170910069 - close enough to help: a long-distance caregiving guide for coordinating local support, updates, visits, and emergencies: 9 (shared choices for aging parents) (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You can hear your parent's voice on the phone. You still cannot see the week. Distance can make one forgotten grocery bag feel like a crisis. It can also hide a meaningful pattern behind reassuring calls and secondhand updates. The result is a difficult question for adult children: how do you stay useful from another city or state without turning concern into constant checking, surveillance, or remote control? Close Enough to Help is a practical long-distance caregiving guide for building reliable support around an aging parent while keeping the parent's voice, privacy, and local relationships clear. It helps families replace worry and scattered messages with defined roles, permission-based information routes, local backup, and review points. Inside, you will learn how to: define the one caregiving job distance is making harder;separate work that can be coordinated remotely from work that requires someone local;build a small support circle of relatives, friends, neighbors, services, and backups with your parent's agreement;create a communication rhythm that supports connection without feeling like an inspection;keep one practical coordination map for contacts, shared dates, routes, and handoffs;plan visits around real decisions, useful observations, and practical follow-through;support appointments from afar while keeping the parent central to the conversation;notice patterns in home and daily life without treating one snapshot as proof;prepare an emergency route before missed calls, severe weather, or urgent local problems;divide near-and-far caregiving roles without dumping invisible work on the person who lives closest;use technology for a named problem without making surveillance the default; andrecognize when remote coordination has reached its limit and local or professional assessment is needed.The book includes 12 printable tools: a Distance Support Scope Map, Local Support Circle Map, Communication Rhythm Plan, Remote Coordination Map, Purposeful Visit Plan, Remote Appointment & Follow-Up Handoff, Distance Observation & Change Log, Emergency Route Card, Near-and-Far Role Agreement, Technology & Privacy Boundary Map, Distance Escalation Decision Map, and 30-Day Long-Distance Support Plan. This book is educational and organizational. It does not diagnose conditions, determine capacity, replace emergency services, authorize access to records or accounts, or provide medical, legal, emergency-management, technology, privacy, or home-safety advice. Part of the Shared Choices for Aging Parents series, this guide offers a calm system for making distance less confusing without making your parent's life less their own. Build the local routes, clarify the remote role, and become close enough to help wherever you live. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You can hear your parent's voice on the phone. You still cannot see the week. Distance can make one forgotten grocery bag feel like a crisis. It can also hide a meaningful pattern behind reassuring calls and secondhand updates. The result is a difficult question for adult children: how do you stay useful from another city or state without turning concern into constant checking, surveillance, or remote control? Close Enough to Help is a practical long-distance caregiving guide for building reliable support around an aging parent while keeping the parent's voice, privacy, and local relationships clear. It helps families replace worry and scattered messages with defined roles, permission-based information routes, local backup, and review points. Inside, you will learn how to: define the one caregiving job distance is making harder;separate work that can be coordinated remotely from work that requires someone local;build a small support circle of relatives, friends, neighbors, services, and backups with your parent's agreement;create a communication rhythm that supports connection without feeling like an inspection;keep one practical coordination map for contacts, shared dates, routes, and handoffs;plan visits around real decisions, useful observations, and practical follow-through;support appointments from afar while keeping the parent central to the conversation;notice patterns in home and daily life without treating one snapshot as proof;prepare an emergency route before missed calls, severe weather, or urgent local problems;divide near-and-far caregiving roles without dumping invisible work on the person who lives closest;use technology for a named problem without making surveillance the default; andrecognize when remote coordination has reached its limit and local or professional assessment is needed.The book includes 12 printable tools: a Distance Support Scope Map, Local Support Circle Map, Communication Rhythm Plan, Remote Coordination Map, Purposeful Visit Plan, Remote Appointment & Follow-Up Handoff, Distance Observation & Change Log, Emergency Route Card, Near-and-Far Role Agreement, Technology & Privacy Boundary Map, Distance Escalation Decision Map, and 30-Day Long-Distance Support Plan. This book is educational and organizational. It does not diagnose conditions, determine capacity, replace emergency services, authorize access to records or accounts, or provide medical, legal, emergency-management, technology, privacy, or home-safety advice. Part of the Shared Choices for Aging Parents series, this guide offers a calm system for making distance less confusing without making your parent's life less their own. Build the local routes, clarify the remote role, and become close enough to help wherever you live. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…