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"By defining Alzheimer's Disease as a spectrum disorder---like autism, it affects different people differently---Dr. Gayatri Devi offers new hope for its millions of sufferers. A neurologist who's been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Devi shares the stories of her patients in the kind of narrative medical writing that grips the reader, humanizes the science, and offers equal parts practical wisdom and advice. She...
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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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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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When an aging family member needs some extra help and care, whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this is the book to get. It delivers bottom-line, no-nonsense, practical information for every stage of need, from the earliest signs of illness, through the nursing home, and beyond.
Written by two distinguished psychologists with specialties in eldercare counseling and research, this frank, friendly, time-tested guide is meticulously organized...
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A new study of Egypt's resources for elder care, and an exploration of the cultural and social attitudes that impact this ever-increasing need in modern society. The Egyptian society is aging. Families have to find solutions for care-dependent older persons, while at the same time, social changes threaten the traditional system of family care. The society has to adapt to this previously unknown situation and to develop new strategies for meeting the...
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Commonly known as Caregiving, millions of people provide care for friends or family members who live with health conditions. This increasingly important role has become a reality for more people than ever before. Especially, for Adult Children of sick or disabled elderly parents!
Caregiving for a senior parent can be stressful and fulfilling at the same time. It's something that should be taken seriously, provided with love, given with dignity, and...
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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...
8) Eldercare Confidential: Cautionary Tales for Adult Caregivers and Caretakers of Parents and Spouses
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A CANDID GUIDE FOR CAREGIVERS Eldercare Confidential is for the caregivers and caretakers who are often thrust into the role of fiduciary, either by legal appointment or by assuming the role because of their relationship to the elderly person who needs caretaking. Typically, this is a close relative, like a parent. The duties of a fiduciary spelled out by laws include loyalty and reasonable care of the assets within custody. This is more than a moral...
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Joel Thomas is a Christian leader, teacher, and counselor to troubled marrieds, singles, and parishioners-at-large with life issues that span from spiritual maladies to domestic upsets to social and moral sicknesses of every kind. He's never authored a book until now. After all the assistance he's offered the world, the day came when he faced putting his courage and outstanding achievements to practice right at home with his ailing mother. Thus, his...
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Deciding on a nursing home for oneself or a family member is not simple and should not be done without knowing all the options and risks. Making the Right Move has been written both for seniors considering moving into a care facility and for anyone considering housing options for someone he or she loves.
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Are you heading into the unknown world of adult orphanhood?
Helping your parents as they age and eventually leave this world can be difficult. While caring for them perfectly isn't a realistic expectation, it is possible for you to let them go without losing sight of kindness and compassion for them and for yourself.
When parents begin to need assistance, the path from mild annoyance to feeling totally overwhelmed can change in an instant. Given...
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Happy Hour with My Dad, written by bestselling humor author Jan King, is the poignant memoir of her 94-year-old Dad's transition from living independently in Florida to an assisted living facility in Virginia. The story is full of Jan's signature humor as she tells you that as a Baby Boomer with a front row seat, she has observed that the final drama of life isn't necessarily The Rocky Horror Picture Show but it isn't On Golden Pond, either. We can...
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A helpful book for anyone involved in caregiving for the elderly or disabled. Long term care is an approaching tsunami which the country and most families/individuals can't afford. Disruption in the approaches and methodology of long term care will occur. Understanding these changes and adapting to the new procedures will make the care of a loved one manageable and easier. Cutting edge ideas about long term care - discusses pros and cons of long term...
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When Darkness Reigns: A Caregiver's Guide from Fear to Faith will take the reader on a journey of faith and reveal how one person's trials and adversities can be examined and utilized as an example to discover how strength, peace, and comfort can be obtained when the Lord is allowed to lead the way.
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On February 24, 2016, the author's life came to a screeching halt as her husband, Jerry, suffered a rare and serious bilateral thalamic stroke and probably was not going to live long enough to leave the hospital. At the same time, God told her to "Be still, stop striving, and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) For the first time in her life, she was forced to stop everything she was doing and focus on her God and the strength she now desperately needed...
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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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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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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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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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