For Families and Caregiver Groups
Encouraging conversations about uncertainty, asking questions, accepting support, and caring for yourself while caring for someone you love.
For Hospice and Senior Care Professionals
A resource for the families you serve.
Holding Watch offers a family caregiver’s perspective on questions that can arise near the end of life.
For senior care and hospice professionals, the book also provides a window into the emotional experiences of families, offering an opportunity to deepen understanding and support meaningful conversations.
How Your Organization Can Use Holding Watch
- Support families: Recommend or provide the book directly to families as a compassionate resource.
- Bring the family perspective to staff learning: Use selected conversations to explore what families may be feeling, questioning, or struggling to express.
- Support caregiver conversations: Incorporate the book into caregiver groups, resource libraries, or facilitated discussions.
- Support staff: Recommend or provide the book directly to staff to deepen their understanding of the family experience and recognize the difference their role can make in supporting both individuals and those who love them.
- Invite Stacy to speak: Offer author conversations, caregiver presentations, and staff learning sessions grounded in her experience as a daughter.
Bring the Family Perspective Into the Conversation
Behind every person receiving care is a family navigating questions, emotions, and decisions they may never have faced before.
Through her experience with her dad, Holding Watch author Stacy L. Balzer brings that family perspective to life. Combining personal storytelling with her background as a speaker, leadership coach, and facilitator, Stacy creates space for honest reflection and meaningful conversation about caregiving, communication, compassion, and presence.
For Hospice and Senior Living Teams
A firsthand look at what families may be feeling but struggling to express, and how everyday interactions across every staff role can help families feel heard, supported, and less alone.
For Professional Gatherings and Community Events
A personal story that invites audiences to reflect on how we support individuals, families, and one another through life’s final journey.
Presentations, author conversations, and facilitated discussions can be tailored to your audience and the themes that matter most to your organization. Organizational book purchases can also be discussed as part of your event.
Professional overview
Download the one-page overview
Holding Watch — A Resource for Families and Caregivers
A short overview for hospice, palliative care, and senior living teams to review and share. No sign-up needed.
Download the PDF (PDF, 882 KB)Professional inquiry
Connect with Stacy
Use this form to write to Stacy about professional review copies, organizational purchases, author conversations, or other professional questions. For general reader messages, please use the contact page.
Prefer to email directly? Contact holdingwatchbook@gmail.com