Your Caregiving Deals

Manage Meds with Ease
Free is even better than a discount! Help to manage and easily keep up-to-date the medication schedule for the person you care for. Your doctors will be very please when you bring this in—and you are always ready in the event of an emergency and for filling the pillbox. In addition to the schedule, there is a checklist to help stay on track. Even set up text message reminders and refill reminders too. MyMedSchedule.com is now available for the iPhone and Android. Check out www.MyMedSchedule.com.

Help in Your Caregiving Years
I wrote the first edition of The Caregiving Years in 1997, in a cube at my day job. This weekend, in the corner of my living room, I completed the fourth edition. The fourth edition features 80 pages of tips and tools in which I do the thinking for you. I help you: Plan and prepare in case bad weather will get in the way; Find the right words during social events; Form your caregiving team. The fourth edition also contains four quizzes so you can test your resilience, if you're on overload, if you're normal and if you're due for a blow-up. The fourth edition is now available in preview, which means it's at a great price until I can find and fix those pesky tiny errors. The preview price is good until March 4. You can save 40% on both the print and download versions; this is the only time you'll be able to purchase at these prices. And, you'll only know about this price here. (Feel free to forward Caregiving Deals to others who may enjoy.) Buy the print for $11.97 here. Buy the download (you receive immediately, saving on shipping and handling) for $5.37 here. (Note: The preview copy may contain those tiny errors I haven't found yet.)

Kill Germs, Save Skin
ActiveForever.com has a moisurizing sanitizer on sale for $3.98 (you save 33%). Shea Butter Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs and without killing the top layer of skin (you know what I mean--when the hands are so red!!). And, sanitized hands mean you and your caree fight infections. Buy here.

Accepting Your Power
In today's free caregiving webinar, “Surviving Caregiving: The Power of Acceptance,” we talked about how to move into acceptance. Our March four-week class takes acceptance on step further: It helps you find your power.

Caregiving seems to steal your power, leaving you powerless over your days and your life. By accepting caregiving, you can move from losing to gaining, which is how your find your power. In our four-week class, we’ll help you gain peace, a plan, preparation, priorities, perspective and prosperity. Those six Ps add up to your Power.

You can participate in our class by joining our live class or listening to the recording at your convenience. Our live class will take place every Monday in March at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. PT). When you register, you’ll receive details on how to join the live and access the recordings.

The cost of the four-week class is $47. You can save 30% and register for $32.90. This deal is available to the first five who email me; put “I Want My Power” in your subject line.

Blessing (Not Cursing) the Bathroom
The right equipment can make such a difference with those tough tasks like showering your caree. BlessedBathroom.com has its sliding transfer benches on sale. Choose from a variety of styles and price points. On its Twitter page, the company says to call for best prices. Shop here.

Save on Alzheimer's Activities
The Alzheimer's Store doesn't often offer coupons, so even though it's only for 5%, it's a deal. When you purchase $30 or more of qualifying items online, you will receive 5% off your order total by using Coupon Code CONNECT (excludes all chairs). Offer ends February 28, 2011. Shop here.

It Is Like Connecting the Dots
Connecting the Dots: Breakthroughs in Communication as Alzheimer's Advances by Judith London is new at The Alzheimer's Store and a good deal at Amazon.com. You can buy at Amazon.com and pay $14.21, saving 25%. In her book, London helps you decode the language of Alzheimer's so you can keep a meaningful relationship. Buy here.

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