A Celebration of Caregiving

Reviews and Testimonials

As someone who cared for my mother and my husband during their final struggles with cancer, I couldn't fail to be moved by the portraits and stories in A Celebration of Caregiving . The enduring message that it is the one beside the bed who is as changed and blessed by the experience of helping someone in need is brought home again and again."

Jacquelyn Mitchard,

best-selling author

This wonderful book is a testimony to love and serves as a powerful reminder of why it 'makes the world go round.' Each of the forty-one vignettes provides a privileged glimpse into the bonds that develop between caregivers and receivers, and reminds us all that our job is to create conditions that allow these vital human connections to flourish.”

Richard C. Birkel, Ph.D.,

Executive Director, Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving

These stories and portraits are brimming with hope and the power of people to determine their own destiny. Each face beckons society forward to newly understand the value of life and to shed the archaic, imprisoning concept of 'normal.' This book says it better than I can.

Normal is valuing everyone in our communities. Caregiving is all about what is right in the world, not the consequence of something going wrong.”

John Hockenberry,

journalist, disability rights advocate and author of Moving Violations