It also addresses how to communicate with difficult patients and those in denial, how to facilitate non-stressful family interaction, and other important topics. This poignant and informative book explores loss of function due to illness, injury, or aging. For caregivers, it offers the caregetter's point of view, which is rarely approached so tenderly. For caregetters, it offers great solace. The Journal of an Understanding Heart , a book by Opal Whiteley, adapted by Jane Boulton Opal began this charming diary when she was only six.
Life is wondrous.
Orphaned and lonely . . . This book would be a comfort to children experiencing death or grief or loneliness. It is inspiring, too, for children of all ages, who find miracles in the ordinary. In illness or in sorrow, we can remind ourselves through studying these moving photographs taken around the world, that without question we are one, both in our grief as well as in our joy and, being one, how truly could we ever be alone. This movie is for caregetters as well as for caregivers.