Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine advocates for careful anticipatory "attending" to an elder's changing needs rather than waiting for crises that force acute medical interventions.
From a bestselling author and clinical psychologist comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter shepherding her father through his final years of life. After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring "inherited" her father (Pop) and set off on an all-consuming, fiveyear mission to make his days as rich and comfortable as ...
Written with the busy caregiver in mind, "The Complete Eldercare Planner" equips families with the vital information they need to prepare for an eldercare crisis. A fill-in space allows readers to keep critical medical, legal, financial, and personal records readily available.
A practicing psychoanalyst offers one of the first books to help navigate the profound emotional challenges of caring for elderly parents in a strained parent-child relationship.
The intricacies of elder caregiving duties and responsibilities can be overwhelming, especially because adult children of ageing parents do not know the ins and outs of the medical and social service systems, let alone how to cope with the emotional burdens of providing care for their ailing parents. They desperately wish for a single resource ...
One of the nation's leading authorities on long-term care planning shows how to design a strategy for individuals and families without using up assets. She offers vital information on financing, tax incentives, health care companies, insurance, and more.
With the field of geriatric mental health growing rapidly in the next decade as the Baby Boomers age, this timely guide brings together a notable team of international contributors to provide guidance for caregivers, families, and those who counsel them on managing caregiving challenges for aging family members. "Aging Families and Caregiving" ...
Rushford offers comprehensive information on prolonging the elderly's independence, retirement and nursing homes, financial and legal concerns, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases, nutrition, and more, in a resourceful guide specifically designed to help adult children help their elderly parents live productive and fulfilling lives.
Written with the busy caregiver in mind, "The Complete Eldercare Planner" equips families with the vital information they need to prepare for an eldercare crisis. A fill-in space allows readers to keep critical medical, legal, financial, and personal records readily available. A summary page at the beginning of each chapter and action checklists ...
Focusing on both the emotional and practical issues surrounding death and inheritance, this book offers guidelines for achieving harmonious family relationships during this inevitable life passage. In addition to offering advice for closing the family home, dividing up furniture and personal effects, settling the estate, and transporting items to ...
CARING FOR YOUR PARENTS IN THEIR SENIOR YEARS, is the first book on aging written expressly for childeren who want to help their elderly parents. Sections on housing, personal care, legal and financial housing are discussed.
This is Avis Jane Ball's dynamic, moving account of her struggle to cope with her father when, in his last years, he changed from someone lively, charming, and independent to someone she and her family could not recognise. He became angry, helpless, blind, deaf, and - something that Ball refused for some time to accept - senile. Ball's ...
This book offers understanding, support, and guidance for people caring for their aging parents and facing the emotional upheaval that may bring.With medical science, health care, and healthy lifestyles extending our life-spans as never before, more and more 'midlife' adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents. This role can ...
** Winner of the 2006 MIND Book Award** In Michele Hanson?s bittersweet columns in the Guardian, collected here, she explored the physical deterioration of her spirited and resilient elderly mother. From bowel trouble to views on Camilla Parker-Bowles, life is never dull in the Household from Hell. A glamorous and much-admired young woman, in old ...
Using real cases and collaborating with professionals in the fields of geriatric medicine, law, and finance, Cassidy takes the guesswork out of decision making and provides a failsafe blueprint for planning the senior years. Including a definitive list of national, state, and internet resources for assistance with elder-care issues and deliemmas, ...
We live in the age of aging. Because of this, there are a number of challenges presented to the family-among the most complex is the job of caring for frail parents. Weaving practical help together with personal stories, this book will help people embrace the job of caregiving as an opportunity to learn more about life and God.
Your teenagers are active, your parents are aging, and your wrinkles aren't shrinking. Pointed guidance and lotsa laughter - Phil Callaway style! - give you the grin to "middle age" with grace and style.
As they seek the best means to care for their parents, Christian adults desire to live out the Fourth Commandment to "honor your father and mother". By turning to God's word for guidance and support, this practical handbook provides help in relieving the stress and guilt that accompany extended caregiving.
Families throughout the world are experiencing unprecedented changes in their domestic and employment responsibilities, namely, more women work than ever before, and more elders are in need of care from their family members. This book examines how 11 geographically dispersed countries in various stages of economic and social development are ...
Virginia Schomp's insightful and inspiring guide offers suggestions, as well as comfort, to help families make the right choices together. This valuable reference helps identify specific issues and provides practical advice on a variety of topics, an exhaustive list of related books and articles, and directories of agencies that can provide help.
In Father to the Man, author Mike Rust explores the mechanics of caring for your parents--everything from establishing power of attorney to making sure money is invested well.
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