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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 Nancy Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Winner of the Family/Parenting - Nonfiction category of the Global eBook Awards.
You have become the caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. You may have been dreading this for some time, or you may have been surprised when this responsibility was thrust upon you. Maybe you know...
La mia giungla | Sicuri e informati
Sopravvivere alle insidie della vita quotidiana
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Nato da un’idea del manager Michele Montereali con l’obiettivo di supportare amministrazioni pubbliche ed associazioni di consumatori nella lotta contro le truffe ai danni dei cittadini più anziani, l’eBook descrive, attraverso un linguaggio semplice e di facile lettura, le più classiche truffe...
by Marilyn R. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
What happens when a lifelong caregiver needs caring for? As Baby Boomers become elders, this heart-wrenching question is one that many North American families are grappling with every day. This timely volume is part memoir, part roadmap, written by a daughter thrust into a role as her headstrong mother...
Age-friendly cities and communities
A global perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers...
by Philips Lifeline
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
On average, one third of adults age 65 and older fall each year. Not only are falls common for seniors, their consequences can be catastrophic. Falls injuries make it hard for a person to get around, and they make it hard for a person to live independently. Falls injuries can lead to an early death.
This...
The Sandwich Years
How to survive when the people in your life need you most
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself.
Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on the way, often found herself stretched...
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Gerontology: Changes, Challenges, and Solutions [2 volumes]
Changes, Challenges, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Written by established and emerging leaders in a broad array of disciplines, this two-volume set provides undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers with an overview of the field of aging that examines the social landscape as well as key changes, challenges, and...
Girl Power
Chronicles of the True Power of Female Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Each story is about two women; one who inspires, helps or guides the other through an overwhelming obstacle or difficulty, therefore demonstrating the true power of female friendship.
PRAISE FOR GIRL POWER Teresa Madaleno’s chronicles of female friendships are so compelling that parts will,...
New Trends in Alzheimer Care
Finding the Spirit Within
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Since my book Matters of the Mind…and the Heart, the trend toward care of the person with Alzheimers has shifted from mainly finding a cure to a focus on improving quality of life for both the person with the disease and the caregiver. I became a caregiver this past decade. It is quite different being...
Connecting in the Land of Dementia
Creative Activities to Explore Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Finding the creativity in the journey through dementia is a challenge millions of people face. One in three Americans knows someone withe the disease. This practical book offers caregivers hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends...
At Wit’s End
Plain Talk on Alzheimer’s for Families and Clinicians, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
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...
Happily Ever After
A Guide to the Best Aged Care for the People You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This extraordinary book provides the latest up to date information on residential aged care, costs of various options for care, common medical conditions in the elderly and much besides. It is immensely readable, being structured around stories from the writers’ lives and those of their friends...
by S.R. Karfelt
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
A heartfelt story of respect, heartbreak, and love…Saffi falls in love with and marries her mad scientist, never expecting to find the most profound friendship of her life with his mother, Gummy. She doesn’t particularly care for the woman, and the feeling seems to be mutual.Thrown...