“These stories capture the essence of the emotional rewards as well as the turmoil that one experiences as a caregiver.” 
– Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter

“Snelling’s authoritative debut offers expert advice and relatable celebrity stories for families and friends struggling to balance caregiving with everyday life……a sourcebook like this will likely be reassuring and essential.”
– Kirkus Reviews

What caregiving role will you play?
How will you avoid the caregiving cost drain?
Are you prepared for the end?
How will you overcome stress, burnout, depression, guilt?
How will you find happiness and support?
How do you start the caregiving conversation with a loved one?
Are you caring for yourself while caregiving?

More than 65 million Americans are caring for a loved one yet most don’t know what they are facing or where to get help. caregiving expert Sherri Snelling shines a spotlight on the world of caregiving and interviews celebrities who have taken the caregiving journey and shared their lessons learned. This how-to guide also covers caregiving topics A to Z, self-care advice and more. Inside you will find numerous expert interviews and tips on how to have the C-A-R-E ConversationTM and how to find your Me Time MondayTM. Written to inspire and empower you, this is your screenplay for health and happiness while caregiving. As Dorothy said in “The Wizard of Oz,” “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Showcasing brain science solutions for proven well-being, you will forget FOMO and find Flow and JOMO (joy of missing out); create a brain health exercise plan; learn how to harness feel-good hormones; explore biophilic nature design for your home and office, find ways to crack the anxiety code; gather your social convoy and find your tribe, grow your gratitude and spirituality plus understand how sleep requires less blue light and more pink noise and how a nutritious diet is based on rainbows and sunshine. Me Time Monday turns wellness on its head helping you navigate through the marketing hype and clutter to tap into the neuro-happiness of nature that provides a pathway to a personalized, practical self-care plan you can achieve in just a few minutes every day and every week for a joyful life.

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, a cast of characters came together to fête the new non-fiction book by Sherri Snelling – A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care. Thought leaders in aging, caregiving, book publishing, age-tech and media attended this not-to-be-missed VIP party in celebration of Sherri Snelling’s first book.

The Location

Writer’s Den in the Bookmarks Lounge at the Library Hotel – a block from New York Public Library

The Producers

The event was hosted by two of the author’s close friends: Alex Witt, MSNBC-TV news anchor and host of “Weekends with Alex Witt,” (Alex and Sherri were sorority sisters at USC and have been best friends for more than 25 years), and caregiving colleague and dear friend, Brooks Kenny, Co-Founder of Lotsa Helping Hands. 

The Cast: Thought Leaders and VIPs

Braving the snow-filled streets of midtown Manhattan the following luminaries were in attendance: Joni Evans of wowOwow, Beth O’Connell of NBC/Universal, Sherri’s dear friend from college James Grant of JGPR, Sherri’s editor from Next Avenue – Gary Drevitch, Terri Mann from Huffington Post and Jane Farr from ThirdAge, Leigh Haber from O Magazine,  Steve Heyman from the New York Times Magazine and Ben Dickinson of ELLE, pr and advertising gurus from Dentsu USA, RLM Finbury, Golin/Harris, Glover Park Group, Vincent Esposito from Media Planet; the team from The Monday Campaigns including Sid Lerner, Peggy Neu and Cherry Dumaual, corporate friends such as Michael Duffett from Canon; caregiving advocates  including Alan Blaustein, CEO of CarePlanners, Robert Bua, CEO of CareScout, a Genworth company, Greg Johnson from EmblemHealth, Dr. Mary Mittleman from NYU, Celeste Carlucci of Fall Stop Move Strong, Gig Barton of RLTV, Rie Nirregaard of Omhu, as well as non-profit organizations and fellow authors and writers and broadcasters. 

Sherri Snelling is a corporate gerontologist, “authorpreneur” and founder/CEO of Caregiving Club, a strategic consulting and educational content creation firm with an expertise in caregiver wellness, well home design and brain health/Alzheimer’s. She is the host of the podcast, “Caregiving Club On Air,” producer/host of the cable reality TV show, “Handle With Care” and author of Me Time Monday – The Weekly Wellness Plan to Find Balance and Joy for a Busy Life and A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care.

Snelling writes articles for various online news outlets and serves as an on-air aging wellness expert for TV and radio news. She advises Fortune 1000 companies and start-ups in the longevity economy on caregiving and wellness programs as well as on well home and office interior design. She also conducts caregiver wellness educational workshops and webinars for employer groups and other organizations and speaks internationally on topics from her books. Snelling has served on aging and caregiving advisory committees for the White House, the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Alzheimer’s Association, the National Institute on Aging and Georgetown University. She also is a mentor for the Techstars and Pivotal Ventures longevity start-up incubator program.

Snelling has a master’s degree in gerontology from USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a master’s certification from MIT Sloan School of Management on Shaping the Jobs of the Future. She lives in Newport Beach, California.