Eldercare category: 429 books
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Taking care of your elderly parents isn't a simple job. In fact, you need to learn how to really take care of them well. Your parents took care of you since you were a baby, and now it was time to repay them back.
This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL caregivers, sharing their experiences...
Happy Hour with My Dad
A Journey into the Cocktail Hour of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Happy Hour with My Dad, written by bestselling humor author Jan King, is the poignant memoir of her 94-year-old Dad’s transition from living independently in Florida to an assisted living facility in Virginia. The story is full of Jan’s signature humor as she tells you that as a Baby Boomer with...
Dying The Right Way
A System of Caregiving and Planning for Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Dying the Right Way is written for seniors, families, and caregivers. Dying the Right Way prepares seniors and families for the time when caregiving is needed, and offers a system for caregiving in the home for either family caregivers or for monitoring professional caregivers. Dying the Right Way...
Lasting Touch
A mother and son’s journey of joy, challenges, sadness and discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
For nearly ten years Jean-François visited his widowed and unwell mother every other week, to ensure her comfort. Regularly, he invited her to come and live with him. Each time Lise, his mother, kindly refused saying she was not ready. One spring day, she called and asked: “Is the offer still good?”...
by Terrance L. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
50% Of Today’s Senior’s Wear Dentures!
Try to be part of that other 50% that does not wear dentures… avoid the expense and major changes to your daily life. Now, while you still have your natural teeth is the time to pay your dentist to maintain your natural teeth so you will save money and...
Mosaic Moon
Caregiving Through Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
MOSAIC MOON is much more than an extraordinary collection of inspirational poetry. Here is a unique resource for anyone with a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other long-term illness. Created from poetry workshops conducted by the Alzheimer's Association Aloha Chapter, this writing tool...
Up the Creek Without a Tadpole
Dementia shatters and rebuilds the bond between a mother and a daughter
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The letters Gillian Griffith wrote to her elderly, demented mother were never intended to be read - they were simply Gillian’s way of dealing with her own anger and guilt towards her high-handed, infuriating and impossibly challenging mother. To Gillian’s own surprise, “as the words bounced back...
Love's Way
Living Peacefully with Your Family as Your Parents Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This important book helps families address the necessary legal hurdles and emotional difficulties that arise with aging parents. Addressing the areas of relationships, emotions, and dignity with practical and scriptural insights, this book will help to ensure that the aging parent is protected along...
Boomers on the Edge
Three Realities That Will Change Your Life Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Where can you go when you’ve been pushed to the edge?The baby boomer generation has found itself in a perfect storm of new and difficult challenges. Aging parents need care. Adult children are moving back home. And just when boomers thought they could retire, economic realities such as meager 401(k)...
The Time of Your Later Life
Reflections on Ageing with Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The Time of Your Later Life is a guide to help older people explore new possibilities and write new life narratives in the process of growing older. It is an interpretation of some of the key events of the year seen through the eyes of a middle-ager who happens to work as a psychiatrist for older...
Age in Place
A Guide to Modifying, Organizing and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
A practical step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple modifications that can help seniors make their homes safer and easier to navigate, this reference offers readers clear and practical solutions. Author Lynda Shrager is a registered, national board certified occupational therapist, a master's level...
Motherland
A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
“I’m reading this book right now and loving it!”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?
“A wry and moving meditation on aging and the...
by Frances Kilcrease
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
For many years, Sister Frances revealed her love and compassion for nursing home residents by recruiting church members and friends to be a part of the “Scrap Iron Gang,” as it was lovingly named by her Pastor, a group that she scrapped together to sing Gospel songs with and for residents. After...
Dementia
Living in the Memories of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it.
In this book John Swinton develops a practical theology of dementia for...