For over twenty years author, columnist and speaker Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members. As a result of this experience, Bursack wrote Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories, a portable support group for caregivers. Minding Our Elders is used as a college text for gerontology and nursing home administration classes as a way to humanize, for students, the family caregiving experience. Bursack’s award-winning Websites, www.mindingourelders.com and www.mindingoureldersblogs.com include links to helpful agencies, articles rich with information and comfort, links to chat groups, and resources for caregiver, boomer and senior needs.
Bursack’s elder care newspaper column, “Minding Our Elders,” runs weekly, in print and on-line. She’s an expert blogger on OurAlzheimers.com and a regular contributor to AgingCare.com. Bursack has been interviewed on many national radio shows, including “Mr. Eldercare,” "Today's Author," “The Ron Ross Show,” and Kevin Skipper’s “The Parent Care Show.” She has been interviewed and quoted in magazines and newspapers around the world, including Family Circle, Quick and Simple, North Jersey Media Group, The Leader-Telegram, Tampa Tribune and the Sydney Morning Herald. She also speaks to groups of all sizes, on caregiving issues.
Bursack is a member of AARP, CAPS (Children of Aging Parents), the National Caregivers Advisory Panel and the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA), National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals(NCHPP), the National Association of Baby Boomer Women and the National Association of Women Writers. As an expert in her field, she is featured in Montclair's Who's Who in Heath and has written hundreds of articles for national publications. Bursack is also a contributing author to "The Media Librarian's Handbook," (Facet Publishing, UK 2008).
