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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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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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The beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition. Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to focus more of our energies on creating moments of joy. When people have short-term memory loss, their lives are made up of moments. We are not able to create perfectly wonderful days for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, but we can create perfectly wonderful moments, moments...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The guide the author wishes she had when she took on a caretaker role
By 2020, the senior population in this country will number over 115 million. Despite this persistent "graying" of America, few adult children feel prepared to take on the role of caregiver for aging parents. Those who discover they must now intervene and care for an elder they love are often at a loss. Trying to navigate the transition is like being dropped in a foreign country...
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When Love Gets Tough: Care Decisions for Loved Ones provides wisdom and guidance in making care facility placement decisions for a loved one and addresses the feelings of guilt, exhaustion and worry that can accompany a care placement decision.
Doug outlines the decision process, how to understand the emotions and guilt that may accompany a move to a care facility and how to develop a healthy relationship with the loved one once the move has been...
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This is a love story of a twenty-six-year marriage that was extended with a six-year slow death sentence due to the dreaded mental illness, Frontotemporal Dementia. Frontotemporal Dementia affects approximately 50,000—60,000 people (Knop, 2011 cure PSP). Frontotemporal Dementia can start in the forties age group, making it very difficult to diagnose. This story describes the challenges of a caregiver to initially know what the actual diagnosis was...
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Would a creator of humankind form us without offering a plan for our aging? Does the Scripture's ancient wisdom really speak to our getting older and how we ought to think of aging in our day? Can we see how God anticipated our needs in aging from the very first? Is there biblical insight for address today's common difficulties in aging? Could a scriptural approach to aging change the relationships we have and our experience in aging?
The Bible offers...
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Sisterly Love Endures, Guidance for the Caregiver is a memoir of the caregiving journey of two sisters. What starts out as a response to a need for help for one sister, ends up with a heart that was forever changed, in the other. You are invited to journey with them, from beginning to end as the bond of love tightens through the day-to-day challenges and triumphs. Through these unforgettable and dramatic memories, current caregivers, prospective caregivers,...
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Your elderly father's memory is failing fast. Your increasingly frail mother just took another fall. Whatever the situation, The Eldercare Consultant can provide the knowledge, support, and encouragement you seek. Weaving together real-life stories with the essential information needed to make the best decisions, this compassionate and practical guide helps you: Spot warning signs of physical and mental decline * Recognize when a loved one needs assistance...
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Discover the Jewish tradition's insights on growing older and eldercare in this groundbreaking resource-the only one of its kind!
"Judaism can be [tremendously] powerful for those searching for new meaning and roles, for perspective on life's profound questions, and for solace amid the inevitable loss and change of later life.... It is time to forge a new paradigm for the Jewish response to aging."
-from the Introduction
From the rapidly changing...
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Este volumen muestra algunos de los hallazgos en el tema a partir de ejercicios de investigación y vinculación con población adulta mayor, que pretenden hacer visibles el proceso del envejecimiento en las grandes ciudades y en sectores en pobreza; los desafíos que implica el cuidado de las personas en vejez y la problemática de la salud en esta etapa de la vida.
Con el propósito de exponer su complejidad, se cuestionó a los adultos mayores...
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