Featured Book: Multicultural Guide to Caregiving, by Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH
I’ve been a fan of the work being done at Kapok Aging and Caregiver Resources. Founded by Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH, their website offers a treasure trove of information, guidance, and resources for the aging population and those who care for them. I’ve been privileged to share some of Angelica’s articles here at LGBTSr, and you can hear my interview with her on the One Thing or Another Podcast HERE.
And now I’m happy to feature her new book, Multicultural Guide to Caregiving: Essential resources to help you balance traditions without losing your mind or money.
About Multicultural Guide to Caregiving
Author and gerontologist, Angelica P. Herrera Venson, DrPH, opens up and shares her family’s personal stories and lessons from her field work and research on aging and caregiving with communities of color and first generation Americans.
Multicultural Guide to Caregiving is an easy-to-follow, must-have book for family caregivers that covers the essential social programs and aging services that every caregiver needs to know.
Here’s just some of what is featured in this book to help you on this journey:
- Understand the cultural traditions and demographic changes that have shaped your caregiving role
- Get the latest, most reliable tools to search for local caregiving resources and aging services
- Access critical social benefits such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food benefits, housing and more
- Maximize your elder’s financial resources, while taking care of yours FIRST
- Make important decisions around the senior’s housing and living arrangements
- Manage care for elders living abroad and know when and how to relocate them
- Prepare for any crisis
In Multicultural Guide to Caregiving, Dr. Angelica P. Herrera Venson provides a wealth of resources that caregivers can tap into to manage elder care with confidence and no regrets. It provides help for minorities and immigrant families to be considered and qualify for programs. Above all, it will help caregivers gain confidence knowing they have support and are not alone in their struggles.
Learn. Prepare. Stay Positive.
About Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH
I have worked in the field of aging and diverse communities for about two decades.
My training is in epidemiology in public health, with a focus on aging. As a former professor and academic, I have researched and published articles on many related topics, including the quality of care of diabetes, depression in older age, health disparities among Hispanic and other minority elders, and family caregiving challenges in vulnerable populations.
While I no longer work in the academic field, I continue to work in healthcare and am passionate about the field of aging. This features strongly in my current job, along with many that I have held before.
You can see my posts here.