Eldercare category: 429 books
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the author of the much-loved memoir Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved comes an engaging and inspiring account of a daughter who must face her mother’s premature decline.
In Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, Kate Whouleystrips away the romantic veneer of mother-daughter love to bare...
Downsizing The Family Home
What to Save, What to Let Go
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
It’s a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Here, nationally syndicated home columnist Marni Jameson sensitively guides readers through the process, from opening that first closet, to sorting through a lifetime's...
by Susan Morse
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
There is an unmistakable gleam in Ma’s eye, and her absolute composure both appalls me and rips my heart from its root. I burst into tears. The gauntlet is thrown.
From the time she was conceived, Susan Morse was her mother’s “special” child. For Susan, special translated into becoming...
Bettyville
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom.” —Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club
“The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging...
A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet Season
As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate...
Driving Miss Norma
One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma—newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage—rose to her full height of five...
The Last Pilgrimage
My Mother's Life and Our Journey to Saying Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A daughter recalls her last years with her mother in a “gorgeous love story and spiritual travelogue . . . a wonderfully written, funny, and fantastic memoir” (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Linda Daly’s mother Nancy was a highly regarded figure in Los Angeles’ cultural and philanthropic arenas—until...
Who, Who Said the Wise Old Owl
Reflections of a Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Book Description Who would have guessed that I would become a caregiver for my in-laws? Who would have guessed that it would have been at one of the busiest times of my life when this happened? Who would have guessed that my father would become critically ill three weeks after my father-in-law died....
The End
A Tough Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The most accurate and honest retelling of my mom's headache that turned into the most impossible situation and the tough choices that had to be made as a result.
Aging Is Living
Myth-Breaking Stories from Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts,...
by Ellen Rand
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Too often, end-of-life care in the U.S. is fragmented, uncoordinated, costly, and unsustainable. But it doesn't have to be that way.*Last Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of Late-Life Care *spotlights many innovations that can make a significant difference as we approach the last chapters of our...
to remember love
two promises that led me to the notes in the ashes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
"to remember love" is a book based on the true story of how Tonya Ferguson and her family, were forced to live their lives clinging to the edge of a jagged cliff, while battling a fierce, non-stop, thirteen year storm.
Look around you and you will find someone that is a Caregiver,...
Restore Elder Pride
Shift the Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In 2006, seventy-seven million baby boomerspeople who worked hard all their liveswill begin to turn sixty. They have a right to expect the best of everything, but if the nursing home industry doesnt change dramatically and soon, they can only expect the worst. Today, nearly two million people are...
Hi I'm Bill and I'm Old
Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
For baby boomers and beyond—an honest, often humorous look at how staying clean and sober takes on a new dimension as the challenges of aging are thrown into the mix.
"Funny, courageous, and empowering. In exploring the richness of his own life, Alexander celebrates and invites us to discover...