Caregiving category: 223 books
The Promise I Kept
My Journey with Dad from Home Care Through Hospice
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Promise I Kept is a poignant, funny, and often heartbreaking story of a daughter's journey to live up to a vow that she never put her father, Jack, into a nursing home; his greatest fear for his final days. Thirteen years later, now a single mother, the marker would be called in after her mother's...
by Mary Lunnen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Approximately 3,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. Awareness is on the increase, with many women wanting to arm themselves with accurate information.
This no-nonsense guide gives you clear facts about cervical cancer, explaining in detail the screening process,...
Overcoming OCD
A Journey to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Daniel Singer hadn’t eaten in a week. Hunched over with his head in his hands, he’d sit in his “safe” chair for hours, doing nothing but shaking, mumbling and moaning; he was in the throes of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dan went from seven therapists to ten medications to a nine...
Alzheimers, Dementia and the Healing Power of Music
Singalong Therapy (A Workbook With Mp3s)
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This breakthrough method in temporarily restoring brain connections has been sweeping the planet. Music has had a proven and undeniably swift effect on improving the health of most patients afflicted with a dementia-related disease. Whether the patient can sing well or not is a moot point.... when any...
by Micha Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Dear Caregiver, I set out to write a comprehensive book with a fresh approach for caregivers and family members who are dealing and assisting individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I gathered as much information as I could from over 25 years as an administrator of residential care and rest home...
Each Day I Like It Better
Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the fall of 2009, Amy Lutz and her husband, Andy, struggled with one of the worst decisions parents could possibly face: whether they could safely keep their autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, at home any longer. Multiple medication trials, a long procession of behavior modification strategies,...
The Selfish Pig's Guide To Caring
How to Cope With the Emotional and Practical Aspects of Caring for Someone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental...
Excellent Dementia Care in Hospitals
A Guide to Supporting People with Dementia and their Carers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Hospital workers are increasingly expected to have the knowledge and skills to care for people with dementia. This best-practice guide presents key information and strategies for working with people with dementia in hospitals to manage common issues. With a focus on person-centred care, this is an essential resource for healthcare staff.
by Stephanie Lind, Susan Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Today we are in a healthcare crisis. All around the industrialized world people are struggling with declining health. From childhood obesity to the multiple health-related needs and concerns of an aging population, millions need help understanding, managing, or even reversing their maladies. Hospitals...
by Allan Ament
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Allan and Deloris’s life together took a dramatic turn when she suffered a debilitating stroke. No longer an equal partner in marriage, Allan became Deloris’s caregiver, responsible for maintaining their household, as well as her wellbeing. Learning to Float describes Allan’s transformation...
Hospice Voices
Lessons for Living at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling...
The Littlest Caregiver
Excerpt From The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A doctor asked on Twitter, "What's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members?"
I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character-answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with...
The Last Waltz
Love, Death & Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Last Waltz, written by Sean Davison and edited by Elaine Feuer, is the true story of an extraordinary love between a terminally-ill mother and son, and how their informed decisions lead to unforeseen consequences: A sister betrays her brother; a son is...
Care Work in Europe
Current Understandings and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European...