Below is the guest post I wrote featuring my book Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity on AlzAuthors.com: The inspiration to write Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity comes from the years I spent as a community outreach social worker in dementia care. It can go back even further to when I was providing care while witnessing my father’s decline, living his last four years with dementia.