Care Pooling: How to Get the Help You Need to Care for the Ones You Love

CarePooling by Paula C. Lowe is a practical guide for people who provide care for others and need a reliable way to share the work. Caring for a relative, friend or neighbour can involve many small tasks as well as significant responsibilities. When one person tries to coordinate everything alone, the demands can become difficult to sustain. Lowe focuses on an alternative: building a circle of mutual support so that people can exchange help and take part in the work of caring.

The book explains ways to ask for assistance and organise practical exchanges with friends, neighbours and co-workers. Rather than assuming that support will appear without discussion, it encourages caregivers to identify what is needed, recognise the skills and resources around them and make specific requests. The book includes 200 stories from caregivers, adding lived experiences to its practical approach. These accounts give context to the everyday realities of providing care and show why cooperation, communication and reciprocity matter.

CarePooling is relevant to people balancing caregiving with employment, family responsibilities and other commitments. It may also be useful to community groups, volunteers and people who coordinate informal support networks. The central idea is straightforward: caring for someone need not be treated as an isolated task belonging to one individual. A network of people, each contributing in manageable ways, can make support more dependable and sustainable. Readers looking for a book about caregiving, shared responsibility and community-based assistance will find a focused guide to thinking about how help can be requested, offered and organised.

Product Details

Author / Editor: Paula C. Lowe
Format: Paperback
Approx. Dimensions: 22.9 × 17.8 × 2 cm
Approx. Weight: 522 g
Language: English
ISBN: 9781881052166
Delivery Time: 5–7 Business Days