I’ve read a plethora of books on the subject of caregiving and aging in the first three years of my life with Mama. Here is my list in no particular order. Well, I guess they are in the order I read them. Favorites are ★.
An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family ▪ Nell Casey, Ed
★ Death in Slow Motion: My Mother’s Descent into Alzheimer’s ▪ Eleanor Clooney
★ Mother Daughter Me ▪ Katie Hafner
When I Married My Mother ▪ Jo Maeder
★ Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders ▪ Mary Pipher
★ All Gone: A Memoir of my Mother’s Dementia, with Refreshments ▪ Alex Witchel
★ Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death ▪ Katy Butler
The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-law’s Memoir of Caregiving ▪ Lisa Ohlen Harris
The Caregivers: A Support Group Story of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love ▪ Nell Lake
Passages in Caregiving ▪ Gail Sheehy
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying ▪ Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
Bettyville ▪ George Hodgman
Not Becoming My Mother ▪ Ruth Reichl
★ A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves ▪ Jane Gross
★ Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End ▪ Atul Gawande
