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"Caring for a Loved One with Dementia is a unique and compassionate guide that offers an effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) program to help you meet your own needs and lower stress levels while caring for your loved one.Caring for a loved one with dementia can be extremely stressful. This essential guide provides skills for dealing with the accompanying emotional and physical stress, and offers tools to help you manage your own needs,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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