Care First

Description

Care First is Marthie Nel Hauptfleisch’s warm, practical guide for anyone walking alongside an aging parent or partner. Drawing on her nursing background, she frames the journey in four plain-spoken stages — “Flat. Up the mountain. Down the mountain. Going home.” — helping families recognise exactly where they stand and what kind of support actually fits, “not too much, not too little.” Rather than a cover-to-cover read, the book works as a map: find the struggle in front of you — dementia, a fall risk, a hard money conversation, grief — and turn straight to that chapter. Throughout, Marthie insists that growing older changes “the packaging,” not the person: “Seniors are the mothers and fathers who raised you. Treat them as the thinking, deciding adults they still are.” A steady, reassuring companion for the hard, beautiful work of caring for someone you love.