Eldercare category: 429 books

This book will teach you and help you with care for an elderly relative in the home. After working manyyears as a Home Health Nurse, I will give you some help and usful information to make this job easier.

Fighting Elder Abuse

Here is everything you need in one place regarding elder care. This resource provides Caregiving advice, tools and more. It covers all stages of senior care for elderly aging parents or spouses.

Lorna Drew thought her partner was carrying his absent-minded professor status too far, until, two years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease. A thoughtful memoir and a wide-ranging handbook, Different Minds is an illuminating side-by-side account of life with Alzheimer Disease. Prepared with...

The book Downloads from God shows us the immense life changing power that comes with real spiritual growth – Power that changes people and circumstances for the better. The story of Charlie and the challenges he faces being an elder in the health care system, and the frustration of his son trying...

Everyone has bad days every now and then, and sometimes people may have a miserable week, but when these blues last for a long time, sometimes weeks, months, and often years there is a problem. This problem is depression, and it is a serious illness that can impair lifestyles from not wanting to get...

Choosing a new career, the next chapter in your life, is never easy. So many questions, and difficulty finding answers…. Until now. If health or patient advocacy or navigation has been on your radar, you’ll find this book to be a handy resource with answers to your questions, including a few you...

Age no longer mattered as I watched and waited while my husband disappeared into the desert of dementia. I had to keep living while this happened and the realities set in.Do you think you know your family and friends? This is when you really find out. There are legalities to be considered, and what you...

How to Find a Nursing Home is a ‘must read’ for anyone, who is facing the issue of placing a loved one in a nursing home. In this practical guide, an elder law attorney gives you step by step information about how to make the best decisions for your loved one. This guide includes: - An informative...

Ruthanne Koyama has great advice for those of us who are treading lightly around the subject of aging. It’s time to break the cycle of silence that creates stressful situations between aging parents and family members. There are facts available in this book to help and guide both children...

Growing old is not easy. Faced with issues such as retirement, declining physical health and the loss of peers, many find the later years daunting. Urged on by a desire to help others, author Chuah Tong-Ik spent a year researching on aging-related topics and has sieved out useful tips into this...

At the grand old age of 92, my mother Dot suddenly starts telling me that she loves me. I am quite dumbstruck at these outbursts of emotion, as she has never mentioned the fact before in all of my 58 years. Over the entire course of my lifetime we have often argued bitterly, and have never really...

Caregiving could kill you, or it could be the best thing you have ever done. Either way, it is dangerous work, and it changes you. As a hospice chaplain and my mother’s primary caregiver in her final eleven years, I understand the sleepless, life and death stress of constant vigilance, interspersed...

This story is about a promise I made to my mother to take care of her through her Alzheimer’s disease nightmare. The book includes my mother’s own thoughts from her journal about her ordeals with the various stages of this debilitating and dehumanizing condition. Her outlook on life was remarkable,...