Caregiving category: 223 books
Taking Care of Our Folks
A Manual for Family Members Caring for the Black Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
With the growing concern over healthcare in America, studies show that elderly African- Americans often come out on the losing end of the system due to lack of health insurance. Because of this growing population, taking care of elderly patients in the African-American community has become the responsibility...
by Rick Lauber
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
You may be among the tens of millions of Americans who provide care for your parent — or you may be among the ten of millions who will. So many children are caught unprepared when physical and mental health declines in aging parents. Life cannot readily prepare you to furnish excellent eldercare...
The Theft of Memory
Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015
National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally...
Healing Through the Chaos
Practical Care Giving
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
If you have never been a caregiver, chances are you will become one. One in three people are or will become caregivers and most are unprepared. A devastating illness or an unexpected disabling injury can change your life in the blink of an eye. Part self-help and part memoir, Healing Through the Chaos...
Death in Slow Motion
A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful...
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Creating Community as We Grow Older
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker...
Help Me Live, Revised
20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Almost all of us know someone with cancer.
And, of course, we want nothing more than to offer comfort and support, and foster hope. But we don’t always know how—and may feel uncomfortable asking. Following her own treatment for cancer, Lori Hope created a survey for cancer survivors addressing...
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness:...
Beauty in the Broken Places
A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
“An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love.”—People
“In this emotional tale, a young couple see their lives changed in the blink of an eye—and learn to find love again.”—US Weekly
Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,”...
Too Sexy For My Bedpan
Too Sexy, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
At the age of 30, while training for a marathon, Elizabeth began experiencing symptoms of ALS. Written by blinking her eyes using a special computer, this book is about persevering with faith at every turn. Practical, yet hilarious, it offers help to those caring and being cared for with a unique...
Nightingale Tales
Stories from My Life as a Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
• There are approximately 3 million registered nurses in the United States. • As part of the nursing community, the author has connections for promoting the book at nursing conferences throughout the country. • TV medical dramas such as Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs point to the general population’s fascination with what goes on in the medical world.
The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness:Lessons for Caregivers
Lessons for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers. Despite the best of intentions it is not always easy to communicate well under these circumstances, or find deep empathy for something one has never before...
The Language of Kindness
A Nurse's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
**#1 International Bestseller
A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched**
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets....
Killer Care
How Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
“A succinct, disturbing report on the prevalence of malpractice in modern medicine. ….An imperative analysis that begs for discussion by industry watchdogs and consumers alike.” —Kirkus Reviews Brilliant...scholarly. A reading of Killer Care makes an immediate personal investment in...