Family & Home
Aging and Retirement
Coping with Caregiving: How to Manage Stress When Caring for the Elderly
This guide offers suggestions to help caregivers maintain their personal well-being while providing quality care for a relative or another care receiver. Authors: Vicki Schmall, Clara Pratt, Sally...
Helping Memory-Impaired Elders: A Guide for Caregivers
Discusses the causes of dementia and how to cope with a progressive dementing illness, respond to dementia-caused difficult behaviors and communicate with a memory-impaired person. Provides...
Letter of Last Instruction: Everybody Needs One
A letter of last instruction is not a will nor a substitute for one. It is a money-management tool and personal document that details a family member's financial information. Twenty-three...
Nutrition for Healthy Aging: Four Key Nutrition Messages for the Older Adult
Nutrition is key to preventing and managing chronic disease, as well as to improving the quality of your life as you age. This publication offers four important strategies to help you make more...
Nutrition for Older Adults: Preventing Malnutrition as the Body Ages
Poor nutrition can cause a cascade of health problems for older adults. This guide lists the nutrients of concern for people over 60 — from antioxidants to calcium to water. Learn how eating well...
$45 This retirement-planning CD-ROM curriculum helps midlife and older adults manage the financial and the nonfinancial aspects of their approaching retirements. The comprehensive curriculum...
Marriage and Parenting
Being Financially Aware When Divorce Occurs: An Idaho Guide
Divorce is a highly emotional experience, one that unfortunately can lead to poor financial decision making. This publication will help you to avoid those pitfalls and more ably navigate this...
Involving preschool children (up to five years old) in the kitchen and the cooking process is a great way to deepen family bonds but it also teaches skills that strengthen a child’s development.
Llevando el Trabajo y la Familia
Also available in English — Navigating Work and Family PNW 556. Author: Harriet Shaklee 15 pages
Teaching children how to eat healthy food yields lifelong benefits. It also supports local farmers. Let this 66-page booklet show you the way to do both, via 35 tasty, handpicked and no-cook...
For child care providers, employers, teachers or almost anyone who serves parents and their children, as well as parents themselves, a sturdy folder holds 10 "handouts" suitable for photocopying...
Personal Finance
Being Financially Aware When Divorce Occurs: An Idaho Guide
Divorce is a highly emotional experience, one that unfortunately can lead to poor financial decision making. This publication will help you to avoid those pitfalls and more ably navigate this...
$45 Credit Cents was developed for educators who teach personal finance, consumer education or life skills to adults and teens. The curriculum covers credit basics, credit scores, how to take...
Credit Cents: Making Sense of Credit, Debt, and Identity Theft
A set of 11 fact sheets explains how credit works and how to avoid debilitating debt. Topics cover choosing loans and credit cards, building and repairing credit history, understanding credit...
Dollar Decisions: Making a Spending and Saving Plan
Making a Spending and Saving Plan helps users identify and wisely handle all income and expenses. Two worksheets help plan. Audience is lower to middle income families but publication can help...
Eat Smart Idaho Grocery Store Tour
A supplement for Eat Smart Idaho nutrition education classes, this 11-minute video, hosted by a registered dietician, teaches viewers how to save money and improve the nutritional value of their...
Feed Your Kids a Rainbow: Banana Blueberry Bean Smoothie
Eating a rainbow of foods each day is not only healthy for you, it’s delicious. Inspired by the Long Live Idaho campaign message, “Feed Your Kids a Rainbow,” this nine-minute video shows how easy...
Letter of Last Instruction: Everybody Needs One
A letter of last instruction is not a will nor a substitute for one. It is a money-management tool and personal document that details a family member's financial information. Twenty-three...
Los desastres naturales o los robos pueden dañar, destruir o extraviar documentos o archivos informáticos importantes. Por lo tanto, es fundamental saber cómo reemplazarlos. Este boletín de ocho...
Replacing Important Lost or Damaged Documents in Idaho
Natural disasters or burglary can damage, destroy, or misplace important documents or computer files. Thus it's vital to know how to replace them. This eight-page bulletin, whose discussion...
$45 This retirement-planning CD-ROM curriculum helps midlife and older adults manage the financial and the nonfinancial aspects of their approaching retirements. The comprehensive curriculum...
Ties to the Land: Succession Planning for Property Owners
Whether you own a farm, forest or rangeland, you care about your property and what happens to it. That's why you need a succession plan to help guide its transition to future owners. Ties to the...