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For the estimated six million carers in the UK today the author has: brought together a huge amount of practical information, supported it with website details, useful contacts and many further resources of help, covered physical, social and financial needs across the stages of immediate, intermediate and advanced care and included helpful personal stories that experienced carers will instantly recognize.

This is an essential companion for anyone caring for a relative or friend, especially in the context of old age and/or dementia. It will save many frustrating hours of information-hunting and help you to ask the right questions at the right time with the feeling that someone else has been up this apparently lonely road before.

Mary Jordan has considerable experience both of care of elderly relatives and of the NHS. For nearly 10 years she has worked on the management side of the NHS, latterly teaching Practice Mangers about General Practice and writing for medical press while caring for her parents and parents-in-law and helping others to do likewise.

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, the largest provider of comprehensive carers' support services in the UK, receives a donation of 50p for every copy of the book sold.