Caregiving asks you to track someone else’s medications, appointments, meals, moods, and money, and almost no one is tracking yours.
This guided workbook and checklist are for family caregivers, written by Esther C. Kane, CAPS, C.D.S., a retired occupational therapist, to help you see your own load clearly and change one or two things about it.
Inside the workbook, readers will find:
- How to use this workbook
- Where you are right now, with a self-rating scale
- Your caregiving load inventory
- The beliefs that keep you stuck
- Reading your own warning signs
- Ten real scenarios to think through on paper
- Building your backup bench
- The ask: scripts for saying it out loud
- Your non-negotiable hour
- Getting real respite, and what it costs
- Getting more out of a fifteen-minute appointment
- Your 90-day plan
- If something happens to you: a one-page handoff
- Resources and next steps
- Thirty-day self-care tracker
- A closing page for the one thing you will change
- Companion Caregiver Self-Care Checklist, five pages, printable
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Important Disclaimer: General education only. Not medical, mental health, legal, or financial advice. Talk with a qualified professional about your own situation. Digital download, all sales final. Esther C. Kane is a retired occupational therapist; this publication does not create a clinical or professional relationship.
