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Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Caregiving Trap provides recommendations for exhausted and frustrated caregivers. Advocate, care navigator, and caregiving educator Pamela D. Wilson shares stories from her personal and professional experience that will help you navigate the challenges of caring for a loved one and help you replace feelings of guilt, sadness, and fatigue with calm and certainty.
In The Caregiving Trap, you'll get step-by-step exercises to help you through common...
Author
Publisher
W.C. Young
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Unlikely Felon is the story of Will and Kay Young, who for years loved, cared for, and supported Will's grandparents while raising young children and pursuing entrepreneurial ambitions. Suddenly, their lives turned upside down one cold, February day in 2011. A knock on their door was not an Amazon delivery, but something devastating-a police search. In moments, everything they had built for twenty years-businesses, reputations, friendships-crumbled....
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers explores the path ahead for solo agers and presents us with a comprehensive guide for retirement planning. Through stories and personal examples, retirement expert and founder of LifeEncore, Dr. Sara Zeff Geber, describes choices in housing, relationships, legal arrangements, finances, and more--and urges solo agers to plan for the future as though their life and well-being depend on it--because it will!"--Back...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But, fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving.
In this comprehensive book, bestselling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal challenges of both caregiving and successful aging. She couples findings from the latest research with powerful insights and problem-solving tips to help...
Author
Publisher
The Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Johann Christoph Arnold, admired by such prominent spiritual and inspirational leaders as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Cardinal Dolan, Pete Seeger, and many more, offers answers to the question: Why shouldn't growing older be rewarding? Arnold, whose books have helped over a million readers through life's challenges, shows us the spiritual riches that age has to offer. Now in his seventies, Arnold finds himself personally facing the challenges of...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. And imagine how that would change the outlook of the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, not to mention their families, loved ones, and caretakers. A neurologist who's been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi rewrites the story of Alzheimer's by defining it as a spectrum disorder--like autism,...
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For many families, a diagnosis of dementia is an ending. For Deborah Shouse, it was a beginning, "My mother taught me how to celebrate and appreciate what we have right now." Through her mother's dementia, Deborah discovered compassion, deepening love, and increased connection with her mother and her family. Love in the Land of Dementia offers hope to family members, friends, and care partners of people who are living with memory loss. Strong, fluid...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a forty-something, community college sociology professor learns that her mother―a charming, passive-aggressive, and needy woman who hasn’t had a lover in decades―has started seeing men who want to be bound, whipped, and sexually dominated? What happens when that same mother, shortly after diving into her newly discovered sexuality, develops a cancer that forces her to accept radical changes to her body, and then another that...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, award-winning journalist Richard Lui left his national news anchor job to care for Dad--no small decision. But decisions to be selfless are rarely so dramatic. Enough About Me equips you with the practical tools to find meaning and compassion in even the smallest of everyday choices"--
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