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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...
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One of the sad truths of aging is that people gradually become unable to do the things they once could. Eventually, it gets to the point where relocation may be necessary. However, with the large variety of options and the different levels of care and services available to seniors, it can be difficult to determine what the best choice is.
In Silver Strides: What You and Your Family Need to Know about Selecting a Senior Community, Dr. Barbara Norvell...
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Dementia changes everything-and not just for the person who receives the diagnosis.
Each of the 5.6 million Americans with dementia has one or more caregivers struggling to make meaning while watching their loved one's personality vanish. The caregiver is sure to be changed-not only by the myriad tasks and responsibilities, but by the soul-searching questions: Dare I hope? Who's to blame? What do I do with my anger? Where's God in this? These questions...
44) Unwrapping the Sandwich Generation: Life Vignettes About Seniors And Their Adult Boomer Children
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This collection of vignettes address senior concerns and how their adult children address those concerns. Read stories about real people and real events, and how they relate to the aging process.
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Offers a healing and insightful examination of the issues involved in Alzheimer's for family and caregivers.
In this evocative memoir, Nancy Avery Dafoe shares the heart-wrenching experience of caring for her ailing mother as she struggled, and ultimately lost her battle, with Alzheimer's disease. Weaving poetry throughout, Dafoe tells her family's story in the hope of helping those who are navigating the murky waters of Alzheimer's. She presents...
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Senior Transitions 101 is more than just a comprehensive handbook for navigating senior care options. It's also a source of support and understanding for the caregiver.
With clarity, compassion, and practicality, Dr. Amy Arp gently guides you through every challenge you might encounter as your parent or loved one grows older.
You'll learn how to:
• Manage caregiver stress before it leads to burnout
• Organize your loved one's affairs without...
47) When Your Aging Parent Needs Help: A Geriatrician's Step-by-Step Guide to Memory Loss, Resistance, S
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It's scary and stressful when it happens... noticing changes in your parent and becoming increasingly worried about their health and safety. Maybe it's Mom leaving the stove on, Dad getting lost on his way home, or unpaid bills that trigger this realization. Or perhaps there have been falls or emergency room visits. Whatever it is, you know something's wrong. You wonder about a diagnosis. And you want your aging parent to accept help, or perhaps move.
Helping...
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Michael Tucker and his wife Jill Eikenberry are enjoying the early years of retirement in their dream house, a beautiful 350-year-old stone farmhouse in the central Italian province of Umbria, but Jill's mother Lora is a constant source of worry. Lora is eighty-seven and her second husband of many years, Ralph, has just turned ninety-one. Jill is traveling frequently to Lora and Ralph's home in Santa Barbara from the Tucker's pied-à-terre in New...
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There's a dearth of information on the everyday lives of the active and so-called "nearly elderly"-those sixty years of age and older. As is the case in any stage of life, it is infinitely easier to face the prospect of growing older if one has some inkling about what to expect. For all those older as well as younger people who are curious about the perceptions and experiences of aging folks, Old and Cold offers light-hearted yet realistic insight....
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Riding the age wave with grace
In this inspiring book, Roland D. Martinson draws on the folk wisdom and experience of over fifty persons between the ages of sixty-two and ninety-seven. He puts this wisdom in conversation with scriptural and theological understandings of elders in the last third of life and sets forth perspectives on aging for individuals, groups, civic organizations, and congregations to utilize in developing a vital, resilient,...
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A modern classic of frontier literature documenting the uncertain journey into the country of caregiving.
Dave Iverson was a busy broadcast journalist recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he decided to do something he'd never quite imagined: He moved in to take care of his 95-year-old mom. Winter Stars is the moving story of their ten-year caregiving journey.
"The resulting memoir is a love story you won't soon forget," writes Elizabeth...
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Monica Graham got her first inkling that her eighty-nine-year-old mother might not be able to continue living on her own when she coated chicken breasts with dishwashing liquid for dinner. It was an easy mistake-the yellow detergent lived right beside the olive oil on the kitchen counter. Graham could easily have done the same thing herself, she thought.
But as her visit with her mom in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, progressed, Graham-who lives in...
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Is retirement what you expected?
You've made it to retirement, the start of a new fantastic chapter in your life. You're now the boss, which means you get to design the life you've always wanted.
Maybe it's been months already; at first, unfamiliar, what with the mornings you could sleep in or days where you didn't have to wash your hair. You have now settled into your 'new' life.
But is something missing? If so, this book is for you.
In 101 Ways...
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The Retire in Thailand Handbook 2023…The Next Six Years, is a follow-up to the original book I wrote and published in 2018 on living or retiring in Thailand, The Retire in Thailand Handbook...The First Six Months. The book is an updated version because so much has changed since covid arrived in 2020 and devastated the country's economy and tourism industry. This book covers the six years that I have lived here and guides the reader through the procedures...
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A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the often difficult family interactions and feuds that accompany them.
With fascinating stories and comprehensive checklists, professional estate liquidator Julie Hall walks Baby Boomers through the often painful challenge of dividing the wealth and property of their parents' lifetime...
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In a powerful blending of memoir and practical strategies from a medical doctor's perspective, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents — and ourselves - from the Perils of Modern Healthcare reveals the hidden side of modern healthcare practices for aging Americans. This ground-breaking book, co-written by award-winning author Marcy Houle and nationally-recognized geriatrician and public health advocate, Elizabeth Eckstrom MD MPH, sheds new light...
57) Surviving Mother
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Just as Deb and her mother Estelle are learning how to mesh their individual lives together, nature's destructive hand comes down, leaving them to wait for a new hope, and help from unexpected others.
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While bringing joy to others, can these two Christmas helpers also find some for themselves?
Seren's great aunt Nelly hates being in a care home, especially around Christmas when Seren learns that Nelly and the other residents can't enjoy the simple pleasure of browsing for gifts in the shops. So what if Seren brings the shops to them?
Converting an ice cream van into a gift shop, Seren travels around Tinstone to help out the less mobile. On her...
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Linda Seidel's lightly fictionalized memoir lets readers feel what it's like for a naturally skeptical, yet persistently naïve, older woman to watch her parents age out of life, to think about the epiphanies they enable her to have, and to reflect on the lives of "elders" she didn't appreciate until she'd worn through some years herself. The elders, whose stories Seidel reconstructs were quintessentially American-meaning complex, subtle and challenging-whether...
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There is a saying in Thailand: "Same same but different." I asked a Thai lady once what the meaning was and she answered, "You and me the same, but different", which I think sums it up. It has become quite a catchphrase here in Thailand, and it is seen on tee shirts, coffee mugs and heard all of the time, wherever you go. You might ask a local what's the best beer in Thailand, Chang, Leo or Singha? And the answer would generally be "Same same but...
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