The Practical Caregiver's Essential Guide: How to Help Someone You Love

This guide will help you to better understand your loved one's need for care and how you can effectively provide it, while still maintaining your own good health.

There are three important rules for good family care:

1. Love is never enough. You can love someone utterly and completely, but without the right tools and education, you can fail as a caregiver.

2. You have to take care of yourself in order to be able to take care of your loved one. If you fail, there will be two people who need a caregiver -- you and your loved one.

3. What you don't know or understand can hurt you and your loved one -- when you learn about what ails your loved one, you can also learn about what will make care better.