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The Comfort of Home : An Illustrated Step-By-Step Guide for Multiple Sclerosis Caregivers by co-authors Maria M. Meyer and Paula Derr RN is a comprehensive and practical guide written for anyone, especially family members, responsible for the care of someone with MS. No experience or knowledge is presumed of the reader; chapters walk one through everything from basic advice for making ones home safe and comfortable to ensuring a balanced diet and sufficient exercise to avoiding caregiver burnout and much more. Simple black-and-white drawings illustrate key points where a visual aid is valuable in this practical book, which covers matters such as saving money and applying health care effectively as surely as the more labor-intensive aspects of caregiving. Highly recommended.

The Comfort of Home Multiple Sclerosis Edition: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Multiple Sclerosis Caregivers (The Comfort of Home) Highly recommended. Can never have too much help in making life easier for all of us! Valued Spot in my Library of Books on Multiple Sclerosis The collaboration between Maria Meyer and Paula Derr with Kimberly Koch and Diane Afes from the National MS Society in presenting The Comfort of Home Multiple Sclerosis Edition is a huge success. Highly recommended.

The collaboration between Maria Meyer and Paula Derr with Kimberly Koch and Diane Afes from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in presenting The Comfort of Home Multiple Sclerosis Edition is a huge success. The information in this book is presented in a clear, precise manner that is easy to follow. I realize the book is geared towards multiple sclerosis caregivers but it has so much information that is useable for me, a person living with MS, that it will find a valued spot in my library of books on multiple sclerosis. The tips, notes, checklists, resource information, and the publication guides are all great tools. Anyone living with MS, whether patient, family member or caregiver, will find information that they can immediately use in this edition. Teresa Rapozo

This book should lighten the load for anyone giving or receiving care at home. InsideMS, Theodosia Kelsey

_This really is a must-read for anyone who cares for someone with MS. People with MS who are currently care-free (or care-less) would do well to read it also. Mindfully illustrated, well-organized, and exhaustive in its breadth of information, the book addresses the important issues facing those who are trying to retain quality of life at home while coping with worsening MS. There are chapters on major hurdles, such as financial planning, deciding on and implementing the level of care needed, and adaptive physical/material considerations. There are usefully illustrated chapters covering body positioning and transferring for one who cannot move voluntarily. There are also detailed chapters about hygiene, catheterization, feeding, and otherwise maintaining both the body and spirits of a loved one with MS. Those details could be chilling for one who has MS and may be daunting for a caregiver, too, but the writing is calm and supportive. One feels encouraged to explore options rather than run from unpleasant realities.There are, thankfully, suggestions for caregiver relief and extensive resources for outside aid involving respite care and vacation/travel arrangements. There is discussion of the potential for abuse (both of caregivers and of care-receivers). End-of-life planning is also covered. There are lists of agencies that may be of help. Our life experience doesnt generally prepare us for coping with disability as a matter of course. This book might reasonably have been titled Caregiving for Dummies for it at least touches on almost everything one might ever need to know. In fact, there is much in the book that I wasnt even aware was knowable. Writing as a reviewer who has worsening MS, I cant say I felt light-hearted while reading it, but I would refer to this book without hesitation should I need the knowledge it contains. The possibility of a loved ones MS worsening is always a threat. It is good to know that someone has taken the trouble to research and organize the information one might require and to present it invitingly. It is, indeed, a comfort._ **** Reviewed by Dean Kramer, Essayist, Author of**Life on Cripple Creek; Essays on Living with Multiple Sclerosis**, Management Team MSWorld, Inc.