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"Finding the connection with a loved one afflicted with dementia is a challenge millions of people face: One in ten Americans has a family member with Alzheimer's, and one in three knows someone with the disease. This book offers care partners practical, hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends who have dementia. It also includes creative tips for busy care partners, offering quick...
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Through the Rabbit Hole is exactly the reference book that the author needed for quick access to information during her experience providing care for her ill parents. It wasn't available for her, so she has written it for all the families and caregivers who are now beginning their journeys. Her parents' medical crises caused her to fall down the rabbit hole and into the maze of unfamiliar options and decisions. Having emerged from the maze, the author...
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Have you recently become a caregiver, or perhaps are considering it as a profession? Or, have you recently been one for a time and are experiencing the stress and anxiety that most often accompany it? Then you are in need of this book.
Caregiving is a very stressful role and occupation for many reasons. This book will acquaint you with the many aspects involved and will frankly deal with the areas as well that are often embarrassing to discuss. It...
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A Caregiver's Bible to Excellence is a revolutionary book- no other like it on the planet. It is so heartfelt and inspiring, you will not want to part with this incredible book, trust me.
Florence Nightingale would be proud of Miss Star N'air. Florence believed everyone-women/men nationwide-should have basic caregiving awareness skills. Hey, you never know when someone you love will need help. This book gives you all that and more, plus it helps...
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When Kyle left her marketing position at one of Philadelphia's iconic media outlets to start her own consulting business, she thought she was finally in complete control of her life. She had no idea things were about to take a sudden and dramatic turn. A few short months after launching her dream, Paula, Kyle's youthful, vibrant, and active mother, suffered the first of three strokes. Within the space of twenty-four hours, stroke catapulted the mother...
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I spend my days explaining to people how they can expect to die. The Conversations of Palliative Care
is a book related to decisions people have to make at end of life as well as those asked of them in the months or years leading up to then. It is a book designed to get people to begin to realize how their illnesses affect them and what the natural course of their illness is expected to be. A variety of topics related to this unique time in a person's...
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This breakthrough method in temporarily restoring brain connections has been sweeping the planet. Music has had a proven and undeniably swift effect on improving the health of most patients afflicted with a dementia-related disease. Whether the patient can sing well or not is a moot point.... when any musical memory comes up, new neural pathways are created in the brain. Though this is, admittedly, perhaps a temporary "fix" for these diseases, it...
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What lies behind England's crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done? Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of the country's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives. Drawing on the history of social care, international...
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I want to do the right thing. She was a wonderful mother, and deserves only that.
This common refrain comes from children of aged, ill parents. Families struggle with decisions, confronting the inevitable while providing parents with love and care. Modern medicine often offers endless treatments - but illnesses eventually progress and the focus must ultimately shift to end-of-life care. Moments that Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare reflects Dr....
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January 4, 2007 started at the Mansfield house like so many other days. Nancy got the children up and ready, and their giant yellow limos took them to school. But then, in a moment, it became clear that something was very different. At age 46, her husband, Larry, suddenly had an acute change of mental status. She hurried to help him get dressed and zoomed to the doctor's office. Once there, he didn't know the day, the year, who was president, or where...
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"Honor Thy Father" was, written for those of us that have or will become unwitting fulltime caregivers to a loved one. Nobody intends to be a fulltime caregiver. It is, most times, thrust upon us. This book is not only an insight to what it could be like, it is full of hard, learned real life experiences. It is not too dramatic to say that this knowledge could save a life.
This firsthand account of a son taking care of his father is an honest, sometimes...
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According to the US Census Bureau, the US population aged 65+ years is expected to nearly double over the next 30 years, from 43.1 million in 2012 to an estimated 83.7 million in 2050. These demographic advances, however extraordinary, have left our health systems behind as they struggle to reliably provide evidence-based practice to every older adult at every care interaction.
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford...
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Anna Strosser's memoir WHO CARES is an optimistic chronicle proving that dementia can be lovingly accommodated at home while families can be nurtured and strengthened through the process. WHO CARES offers a timely personal account by an eighty-eight year old wife and caregiver, whose unique insights chronicle the impact dementia has on her husband Ken and herself. The story describes the journey of an elderly couple who, after fifty-five years of...
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Not everyone is born a natural caregiver. One moment, digital journalist Joy Johnston is a cynical workaholic with an underwater mortgage. The next moment, she faces the responsibility of caring for her eccentric mother who's battling colon cancer, just six months after her father's death from Alzheimer's. As an only child, she has no choice but to slap on the latex gloves, and get to know more about her mother and herself than she ever imagined possible.The...
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The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians. In Suggestion Language in Medical Care: How to Talk to Patients to Promote Trust and Cooperation, Dr. F. Ralph Berberich explores the impact of language and its nuances as it applies to those giving patient care.|The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians....
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Patients and their loved ones are the reason hospitals exists. Providing safe, compassionate and expert care is the overarching goal of your doctors, nurses and other caregivers in the hospital. Navigating Your Hospital Stay: A Guide Written by Expert Nurses was written to enhance the experience of all hospitalized patients. It was written by expert nurses who are committed to alleviating suffering, preventing complications and promoting healing...
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In these pages, author and caregiver Sheree May shares both the joys and struggles of caring for a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
May stumbled upon an inspirational place called Celebrate Recovery. There she found the value in taking all her troubles to God. Afterward, she was led from a place of pain through a world of pandemic to a place of healing.
There, May discovered her independence and self-worth. She could now give her mother the...
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Due to the lack of formal training, self-doubt, and conflicting ideas from outside resources, most Parkinson's disease care partners and caregivers struggle and experience frustration in caring for their loved one. The challenges for care partners in the early and intermediate stages as well as the challenges for caregivers in the more advanced stages vary widely. The purpose of this book is to equip Parkinson's disease care partners and caregivers...
20) It's My Life Too!: Reclaim Your Caregiver Sanity by Learning When to Say "Yes" and When to Say "No"
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This "no-holds-barred" caregiver's instruction manual is, designed to teach these wonderful, compassionate servants how to FIRST take care of themselves. If they don't learn this, they will likely suffer burnout and become sicker than their loved ones. It's a perfect book for those, who already know this, but cannot seem to actually do it.