Welcome
“The Silverado Story” provides important new information on how to give life affirming care to the memory-impaired and how caregivers can connect with them in ways that have meaning and satisfaction…a significant and welcome addition to the body of knowledge about an issue that is affecting more and more families every day.
Gail Sheehy, author, “Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence,” “Passages,” and 14 other books; AARP Ambassador of Caregiving 2009
Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible…
Loren Shook and Steve Winner believed people memory-impairing illnesses were capable of greater engagement with the world and their loved ones than traditional care facilities were producing. The Silverado Story details the practices these Alzheimer’s futurists believe should form the core of America’s response to what is being called the Alzheimer’s epidemic.
Awards
The Silverado Story: A Memory-Care Culture Where Love is Greater than Fear has captured a Gold Award of Excellence 2011 – the top-level honor – in the International Communicator Awards, a program that annually salutes creative excellence. The book’s recognition was earned for the authors’ ability to communicate that “puts them among the best in the field.” Sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, this year’s Communicator Awards considered more than 6,000 entries from within the United States and abroad.
Early this year, The Silverado Story also received a Silver Medal in the 2011 Independent Book Publisher Awards. It captured the honor, known as a Silver IPPY Award, in the category of aging. The IPPY Awards program is the largest independent book awards competition in the world. It annually judges more than 4,000 entries submitted by 2,000 publishers from across the United States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries.
The Silverado Story was also named the winning-entry in the Business Book category of the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival. The festival is an annual event that honors independent publishers and books deserving of further worldwide attention.
Radio Interview!
Listen to Steve Winner, co-author of The Silverado Story, on the Coping with Caregiving radio program. Scroll to segment 2. The host, Jacqueline Marcell, is the author of Elder Rage.
All net proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Future Senior Care Leaders Fund, a scholarship program to aid those training to serve the memory-impaired.