Francine Falk-Allen

I love to travel but as I've gotten older, it's become too difficult to handle all of the obstacles that happen when you travel so I thought I was done travelling for good...until I read this book! The author is in her 70s and has a disability due to polio at a young age. She has been all over the world and continues to travel even now. She had fantastic ideas on how to handle some of the travel problems she has encountered and suggestions on what countries offer the most help for the disabled and elderly. She also advised about the hotels and airports in major cities all over the world that are best for handicapped people. She even tells some of the problems that she had - some of them humorous - that would stop many people from traveling but she just went on with her life and kept traveling!. This book has definitely give me hope that I can travel again.

Plus her chapters on travel, she has a section about pain, managing doctors and has lots of strength training exercises that have helped her with pain over the years. She's a real advocate of exercising in a pool. The last section is about finding and sharing with people with long term health problems. She also has a very enlightening chapter about how handicapped people want to be addressed and treated and how to be a good caregiver for someone else. Francine Falk Allen is a fantastic for handicapped and aging people all over the world.

If you have mobility problems for any reason or are a caregiver for someone else, you need to read this uplifting book.

"My desire is that you have found something in this book that's useful, inspiring, fun or all three" (p 205)

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review.… (mais)