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'Provides valuable tips and advice to help your provide the best eldercare while respecting the demands of your time. It guides your through typical caregiver issues, explores the best choices for caring for your elderly loved ones, and helps you develop and implement plans that deliver the strongest possible care. -- Publisher's annotation.

Written as a segue from the final chapter of the writer's previous publication, this guide to downsizing addresses the growing need of individuals and caregivers in planning and carrying out downsizing tasks while transitioning their premises to smaller places and spaces. For caregivers of all stripes, be they spouses, adult children, siblings, friends, neighbours, downsize companies or caregiving individuals, it offers essential planning steps for...

Approximately six million people have some form of dementia in North America, and they each have an average of five care partners. This number is growing each year and will continue to grow until a cure is found. There are books that are very clinical and books that are fictional, but 'Dementia in the Family' provides clinical information in lay terms within a true story of how dementia affects not just the person with the disease, but everyone around...

Our life can be viewed as three stages. In the first, we are told what to do and when to do it by our parents and teachers. In the second, our employers give us directions, usually with set working hours. In the third stage, when we retire, what we do with our time and lives is something we must decide. The transition into retirement, with seemingly endless options, can be challenging. Most books on retirement concentrate on the financial aspects...

More and more of us are faced with caring for elderly parents. Becoming your parent's guardian and/or trustee enables you to make decisions for them when they can no longer make decisions for themselves. Protect Your Elderly Parents: Become Your Parents' Guardian or Trustee helps you to answer these questions and provides the necessary forms and resources you need to take over as guardian and/or trustee, so that you can ensure your parents have the...