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Surviving Eldercare:
Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin
Ellen's book will strengthen and guide you in your role as caregiver to an elder parent or relative, and help you understand your own physical, emotional, mental & spiritual needs.
"This is a book about change. It is about digging a little deeper into yourself... questioning... asking yourself if you are happy with the choices you are making in your life."
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Who is recommending Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin:
Book Review by Ryan Malone, Inside Elder Care
Life Coach, Sheryl Jones – R U Happe Life Coaching
Life Two...Midlife Improvement
Featured Book Of the Month on Zoey Ryan’s Positively Outrageous Women May Newsletter
Ellen Besso, MidLife Coach and Writer
Author Ellen Besso holds a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology, is a Martha Beck Certified Coach and a Registered Clinical Counselor. With 25 years' experience as a coach, counselor and social worker, and as a midlife navigator and caregiver for her mother, Ellen is uniquely qualified to guide and support women.
Ellen is currently on her second trip to India. This trip is a realization of her dream of doing volunteer work in Dharamsala, teaching English to Tibetan refugees. Ellen will share this experience with her readers in her second book in the MidLife Maze Series. Her first book Surviving Eldercare chronicles her journey with her own mother who has Alzheimer’s, as well as providing a body-mind-spirit approach to caregiving.
In the Media
Read a review of Ellen's book on Big Pacific Sunshine Coast Magazine.
Watch and listen to part 1 of Ellen's segment on "Where Their Needs End" on Coast Cable TV show (YouTube)- Read an article on Ellen from the Coast Reporter.
- Coping with Caregiving
Listen to Ellen speak about elder caregiving on Segment One of the "Coping with Caregiving" radio show discussing Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin with host, Jacqueline Marcell, author of "Elder Rage". You can listen to the archive via Windows Media Player (Windows or MAC) or Real Player (Windows). Learn more about listening to WSRadio. - Open to Hope
- Ellen has an article on Open to Hope grief website. Read her article Caregivers Struggle When Parents Age.
- September 1, 2009
Age Wise Living radio talk show on VoiceAmerica.com
with Barbara E. Friesner, the country’s leading Generational Coach, author of The Ultimate Caregiver’s Success System: The Step by Step Blueprint For Resolving Your Eldercare Issues by Choice, Not Crisis - Helping Others After Loss - Sept 17,2009
Listen to Ellen on the Dr. Gloria Horsley Radio Show with Drs. Gloria and Heidi Horsley of the Grief Blog and Open to Hope.