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"National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent...
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The bond between patient and caregiver is an important one. If your loved one is struggling with a serious illness, there are ways that you can work together as a team to make sure that each of you is able to be as active and engaged as possible. This helps to reduce the stress and frustrations in your relationship, improve your ability to communicate effectively with each other, and avoid unnecessary complications that could knock you both off-track....
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For centuries, healthcare has struggled with the concept of adherence management. Getting people to follow medical advice has always been, at best, a fifty-fifty chance. People are wary of side effects to medications, inconvenience, and expense. Dr. Robert E. Wright changed that with the development of Adherence Management (AdM) Coaching. Dr. Wright teaches home caregivers the techniques that nurses and hospital staff use around the world to help...
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Who is a caregiver?
A caregiver is anyone who is called upon to care for the needs of another. It might be as little as knowing that you need to call Dad a couple of times a week to make sure he is okay, or perhaps you are bringing meals to someone and taking them to doctor's appointments. Then there are the full-time caregivers who have dedicated their lives to the complete care of another. This book is dedicated to all of you who care about someone...
5) It's My Life Too!: Reclaim Your Caregiver Sanity by Learning When to Say "Yes" and When to Say "No"
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This "no-holds-barred" caregiver's instruction manual is, designed to teach these wonderful, compassionate servants how to FIRST take care of themselves. If they don't learn this, they will likely suffer burnout and become sicker than their loved ones. It's a perfect book for those, who already know this, but cannot seem to actually do it.
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In these pages, author and caregiver Sheree May shares both the joys and struggles of caring for a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
May stumbled upon an inspirational place called Celebrate Recovery. There she found the value in taking all her troubles to God. Afterward, she was led from a place of pain through a world of pandemic to a place of healing.
There, May discovered her independence and self-worth. She could now give her mother the...
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Due to the lack of formal training, self-doubt, and conflicting ideas from outside resources, most Parkinson's disease care partners and caregivers struggle and experience frustration in caring for their loved one. The challenges for care partners in the early and intermediate stages as well as the challenges for caregivers in the more advanced stages vary widely. The purpose of this book is to equip Parkinson's disease care partners and caregivers...
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A Caregiver's Bible to Excellence is a revolutionary book- no other like it on the planet. It is so heartfelt and inspiring, you will not want to part with this incredible book, trust me.
Florence Nightingale would be proud of Miss Star N'air. Florence believed everyone-women/men nationwide-should have basic caregiving awareness skills. Hey, you never know when someone you love will need help. This book gives you all that and more, plus it helps...
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Through the Rabbit Hole is exactly the reference book that the author needed for quick access to information during her experience providing care for her ill parents. It wasn't available for her, so she has written it for all the families and caregivers who are now beginning their journeys. Her parents' medical crises caused her to fall down the rabbit hole and into the maze of unfamiliar options and decisions. Having emerged from the maze, the author...
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What lies behind England's crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done? Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of the country's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives. Drawing on the history of social care, international...
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January 4, 2007 started at the Mansfield house like so many other days. Nancy got the children up and ready, and their giant yellow limos took them to school. But then, in a moment, it became clear that something was very different. At age 46, her husband, Larry, suddenly had an acute change of mental status. She hurried to help him get dressed and zoomed to the doctor's office. Once there, he didn't know the day, the year, who was president, or where...
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"Honor Thy Father" was, written for those of us that have or will become unwitting fulltime caregivers to a loved one. Nobody intends to be a fulltime caregiver. It is, most times, thrust upon us. This book is not only an insight to what it could be like, it is full of hard, learned real life experiences. It is not too dramatic to say that this knowledge could save a life.
This firsthand account of a son taking care of his father is an honest, sometimes...
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Not everyone is born a natural caregiver. One moment, digital journalist Joy Johnston is a cynical workaholic with an underwater mortgage. The next moment, she faces the responsibility of caring for her eccentric mother who's battling colon cancer, just six months after her father's death from Alzheimer's. As an only child, she has no choice but to slap on the latex gloves, and get to know more about her mother and herself than she ever imagined possible.The...
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Patients and their loved ones are the reason hospitals exists. Providing safe, compassionate and expert care is the overarching goal of your doctors, nurses and other caregivers in the hospital. Navigating Your Hospital Stay: A Guide Written by Expert Nurses was written to enhance the experience of all hospitalized patients. It was written by expert nurses who are committed to alleviating suffering, preventing complications and promoting healing...
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The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians. In Suggestion Language in Medical Care: How to Talk to Patients to Promote Trust and Cooperation, Dr. F. Ralph Berberich explores the impact of language and its nuances as it applies to those giving patient care.|The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians....
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This breakthrough method in temporarily restoring brain connections has been sweeping the planet. Music has had a proven and undeniably swift effect on improving the health of most patients afflicted with a dementia-related disease. Whether the patient can sing well or not is a moot point.... when any musical memory comes up, new neural pathways are created in the brain. Though this is, admittedly, perhaps a temporary "fix" for these diseases, it...
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I want to do the right thing. She was a wonderful mother, and deserves only that.
This common refrain comes from children of aged, ill parents. Families struggle with decisions, confronting the inevitable while providing parents with love and care. Modern medicine often offers endless treatments - but illnesses eventually progress and the focus must ultimately shift to end-of-life care. Moments that Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare reflects Dr....
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In the beginning of my mother's journey with dementia, I was clueless. I had very little knowledge of this disease and absolutely zero understanding. I felt a need, a want, to write about our journey, not only for my own sanity but also as a tool to help others walking the same path that we were. I wanted the reader to know about my mother and experience her incredible life during the Nazi invasion of Europe and before dementia came knocking. Knowing...
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From the groundbreaking series written specifically for family caregivers, "Activities for the Family Caregiver - Traumatic Brain Injury: How to Engage / How to Live" offers information and insight to enhance quality of life through improved social interactions as well as activities of daily living, safety and general caregiver information. Learn new communications and activities strategies to improve time spent with your loved one. Gain new insight...
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