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In the early 1990s I was in college, and my good friend moved into my apartment. We'll call him Stu. We shared a small bedroom with two twin beds. His goal was to make the football team, and mine was to make the baseball team.
One day Stu was looking at the bulletin board on the wall above my small desk, which was crammed into a corner, and he asked me, "What's with all the three-by-five cards?" I told him they contained my goals for both the present...
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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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Caregiving is a demanding task that takes a huge toll on the person providing care-mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Nell Noonan, speaking from her own experience as caregiver for her husband, describes caregiving as a "cataclysmic spiritual experience." She says it's critical for caregivers to practice self-care so they can cope with their situation. Paying attention to one's spiritual health is especially important. The 28 Days...
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The Caregiver's Training Program gives you practical, immediately useful tactics for caring for your aging parent. This book provides the step by step instruction you need to understand what to do, who to call and how to find help when you need it. With the staggering increase in the population of those age 65 and older, the fastest growing segment of the U.S. workforce will be retirement age by the year 2014. Millions of Americans will take on the...
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Becoming the primary caregiver for a spouse, family member, friend, or loved one can be a tremendously rewarding and equally challenging experience. How do you know if you're the right person to be a caregiver? What important conversations should you have beforehand to make sure that you're starting off on the right foot? What aspects of care should you manage personally and how do you assemble the best support team to handle the rest? How do you...
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Between marriage, home, kids, job and now an aging parent, those in the Sandwich Generation are perpetually short on time. This Kindle book is short, informative and is not meant to be a step-by-step guide. It is a collection of actionable ideas to help you cope with the care of your aging parent. There are no two identical circumstances, but there are central issues which must be addressed by the family of the elderly person. The author draws upon...
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In our youth oriented culture, Currier asks us to venerate the very old. Merely surviving to old age doesn't guarantee wisdom; it may just be good genes. But if we listen, she says, our elders gift us with pure truth. After twenty five years as a nurse in Assisted Living, Currier has collected a trove of stories, with souls gruff and funny, sometimes feeble and terrifying:
• meet a ninety year old lady who wants to know about syphilis
• discover...
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This book is primarily for adults with aging parents who want to be informed or help them. The goal is to help you and your parents not make the mistakes that others have made that have led to the destruction of relationships and families. You'll need to be prepared when events with your parents begin to happen (and when a decline begins, events can develop very quickly) so your life doesn't fall apart and you can actually transform the process into...
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The author, Cynthia Neher Martindale, is a veteran of all things senior-related. In Graceful Last Chapters: Helping Seniors Who Need More Care, she shares her twenty years of experience with senior care in a voice filled with compassion, understanding, and an insider's point of view. As the primary caregiver for her parents in their declining years, as a sales and marketing director for senior living communities, and as a lawyer, Ms. Martindale brings...
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With over 10 years' experience working as a carer for elderly people, B. Mack decided to write this book to share her knowledge. She has cared mainly for elderly people who were diagnosed with dementia.
This book contains useful information that will help families, friends and caregivers to deal with their loved ones who may be going through various stages of dementia, from early stages to end stage dementia. With the help of this book you can set...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Across America and around the world, the five love languages have revitalized relationships and saved marriages from the brink of disaster. Can they also help individuals, couples, and families cope with the devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Coauthors Chapman, Shaw, and Barr give a resounding yes. Their application of the five love languages creates a new way to touch the lives of the five million Americans who have Alzheimer's, as...
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