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At Wit's End: Plain Talk on Alzheimer's for Families and Clinicians, now in its Second Edition, is a straightforward summary of leading advice for understanding and caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease, written without technical jargon and impractical nuance. About one-third of our population will eventually provide care for someone with Alzheimer's. The strain of caring for a loved one with this disease can be enormous, yet the reward of enhancing...
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Careless Caregivers is not a planner or guide to eldercare nor is it a diary or journal relating an eldercare odyssey. Rather, it is a short collection of true stories about one family's eldercare experience with hired in-home caregivers. Told in a blunt and humorous fashion, the book has a simple objective-to rally aging parents and their children to mentally and financially prepare for an unavoidable future. Readers will find stories that are simultaneously...
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In hindsight, taking care of the elderly is one of the most complex matters in life. Not a lot of people look forward to this task, let alone prepare for it.
Throughout the years, the world has welcomed a good mix of innovations and distractions. True enough, this take-the-good-with-the-bad concept, will forever be debated, as everyone seems to struggle finding the fine line-a balance, so to speak-amidst the constant bombardment of groundbreaking...
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Susan Rava's story begins with the first suspicion that her father-in-law, Paul, was lapsing into dementia after he set out to swim solo across Lake Michigan. Subsequently, Paul's wife, Silvia, and Susan Rava's parents, George and Dorothy, succumb to Alzheimer's disease. This beautifully written memoir culminates with Dorothy's death, 14 years after Paul's fateful swim. Rava speaks honestly about the emotional and spiritual challenges she, her husband,...
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Caring for elderly parents and loved ones can be a daunting task. You love your parents and are honor-bound to care for them, but it can be a lonely journey when you feel unprepared, overwhelmed and guilt-ridden. Care giving for Your Elderly Parents is your solution. We have both cared for our parents and we created a resource to help you navigate this very challenging time of life. Our stories reflect our journey and the accompanying emotional challenges....
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How to Care for Your Elderly Loved Ones Without Killing Yourself in the Process • Are you exhausted and overwhelmed? • Have you had to give up important things in your life to care for your elderly loved ones? • Are you beginning to feel depressed or even resentful as a caregiver? If you've answered "Yes" to any or all of these questions, then you've found the right book! 50 Sanity Saving Tips for Caregivers: You Don't Have to Kill Yourself...
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When Love Gets Tough: Care Decisions for Loved Ones provides wisdom and guidance in making care facility placement decisions for a loved one and addresses the feelings of guilt, exhaustion and worry that can accompany a care placement decision.
Doug outlines the decision process, how to understand the emotions and guilt that may accompany a move to a care facility and how to develop a healthy relationship with the loved one once the move has been...
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With more than 5 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer's disease and nearly 10 million loved ones caring for them, addressing the concerns of these elders and their caregivers is a matter of increasing importance. Relying on their many years of experience in this area, Jane Thibault and Richard Morgan offer this book to provide a fresh, hopeful model of dealing with life and death in the realm of Alzheimer's and other forms of...
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Tony had pretty much lived his life on his own terms but now, in his eighties, things were much more challenging. "Getting old isn't for sissies." he often said. He needed help and needed it fast as his world was rapidly changing due to his illness and age. Help would come, but from a most unlikely source.
"When God Creates a Musician" is a true story about a caregiving journey that Tony, a renowned musician, and his son-in-law would take over...
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At the heart of this book is a carer's story. However, it is much, much more than that. It is a book about being human, about the ups and downs of life, about loving, about trying to make sense and work out, and around the things that life throws at you how you have to find a way of living without ever forgetting your loved one. Beautifully written with love and confidence about a poignant time in the life of a family. The Struggle to retain the self...
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The beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition. Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to focus more of our energies on creating moments of joy. When people have short-term memory loss, their lives are made up of moments. We are not able to create perfectly wonderful days for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, but we can create perfectly wonderful moments, moments...
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This is a love story of a twenty-six-year marriage that was extended with a six-year slow death sentence due to the dreaded mental illness, Frontotemporal Dementia. Frontotemporal Dementia affects approximately 50,000—60,000 people (Knop, 2011 cure PSP). Frontotemporal Dementia can start in the forties age group, making it very difficult to diagnose. This story describes the challenges of a caregiver to initially know what the actual diagnosis was...
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The guide the author wishes she had when she took on a caretaker role
By 2020, the senior population in this country will number over 115 million. Despite this persistent "graying" of America, few adult children feel prepared to take on the role of caregiver for aging parents. Those who discover they must now intervene and care for an elder they love are often at a loss. Trying to navigate the transition is like being dropped in a foreign country...
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The U.S. lacks a long-term care system. The closest it has is Medicaid, a safety net program for the very poor. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 90% of older persons receiving help with activities of daily living (ADLs) in 2011 relied on some "informal" care, from family members and friends. About two thirds relied on only informal care. Family and friends collectively provided 75-80% of total care hours in non-institutional...
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While bringing joy to others, can these two Christmas helpers also find some for themselves?
Seren's great aunt Nelly hates being in a care home, especially around Christmas when Seren learns that Nelly and the other residents can't enjoy the simple pleasure of browsing for gifts in the shops. So what if Seren brings the shops to them?
Converting an ice cream van into a gift shop, Seren travels around Tinstone to help out the
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Sisterly Love Endures, Guidance for the Caregiver is a memoir of the caregiving journey of two sisters. What starts out as a response to a need for help for one sister, ends up with a heart that was forever changed, in the other. You are invited to journey with them, from beginning to end as the bond of love tightens through the day-to-day challenges and triumphs. Through these unforgettable and dramatic memories, current caregivers, prospective caregivers,...
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Would a creator of humankind form us without offering a plan for our aging? Does the Scripture's ancient wisdom really speak to our getting older and how we ought to think of aging in our day? Can we see how God anticipated our needs in aging from the very first? Is there biblical insight for address today's common difficulties in aging? Could a scriptural approach to aging change the relationships we have and our experience in aging?
The Bible offers...
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You may be among the tens of millions of Americans who provide care for your parent - or you may be among the ten of millions who will.
So many children are caught unprepared when physical and mental health declines in aging parents. Life cannot readily prepare you to furnish excellent eldercare while balancing the demands on your time. This book provides practical tips, realistic guidance, encouragement and insight into the time ahead.
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