WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE GETS WEAKER: A Caregiver’s Survival Guide to Helping Someone With Muscle Weakness While Protecting Your Health, Your Relationship, and Yourself (Neuromuscular Expert Series)

When someone you love begins to lose physical strength, life can change in ways no one prepared you for.

A hand reaches for yours when getting out of a chair. A shower becomes something that requires help. Stairs become frightening. Appointments multiply. Roles begin to shift. And almost without realizing it, you are no longer simply a spouse, child, parent, sibling, or friend.

You have become a caregiver.

But who is taking care of you?

When Someone You Love Gets Weaker is a compassionate, practical guide for families caring for someone living with neuromuscular weakness. Written by neurologist and neuromuscular specialist Nivedita U. Jerath, MD, MS, it brings together medical understanding with the everyday realities caregivers face at home.

How much should you help—and when should you step back? How do you protect someone from falls without taking away independence? What happens when eating, swallowing, breathing, bathing, walking, or getting out of bed becomes difficult? How do you prepare for medical appointments, equipment, home modifications, and changes that may come next?