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The prospect of a long-term commitment to caregiving for someone with dementia can trigger overwhelming fear, leaving you uncertain about where to even begin. The feeling of helplessness can be difficult to bear! Fortunately, you'll find answers and practical tools in this helpful caregiver handbook. Discover strategies to care for your loved one while not losing yourself in the process.

Facing end-of-life decisions for a loved one can feel overwhelming but compassionate guidance can make all the difference. The Hospice Q & A Book: Advocating For Your Loved Ones by JoAnn Barmettler, compassionately narrated by Madeline Starr and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is an essential hospice care and caregiving audiobook designed to help families navigate hospice and end-of-life care with clarity, confidence, and peace of mind.

Don't buy just a book. Buy a system built for how your brain actually learns in-home care. Still blanking on the PPE sequence before a home visit? Mixing up contact vs droplet vs airborne precautions? Confident with transfers in skills lab, but freezing when the question is just words on a screen? That's not a caring problem. That's a method problem. This book fixes the method.

Don't buy just a book. Buy a system backed by brain science. You've finished training, logged your clinical hours, and seen what safe dialysis care looks like. Now you're facing the CCHT exam—and the question isn't whether you know the work. It's whether you can retrieve the right answer across water treatment, machine operation, infection control, and patient care under timed pressure. Still blanking on AAMI water standards when the clock starts? Mixing up venous vs arterial pressure alarms? That's not a care problem. That's a method problem.

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as she introduces a proven method that uses the creative arts to bring light and joy to the lives of elders. In Creative Care, Anne Basting lays the...

Наши родители стареют. Становятся обидчивыми, нетерпимыми, язвительными, неряшливыми. Мы пытаемся помочь, но в ответ получаем лишь новые претензии. Мы раздражаемся и злимся. А потом виним себя, что не сдержались. Нина Зверева, тележурналист, популярный бизнес-тренер, автор книг про общение, считает, что можно научиться так общаться с пожилыми родителями, чтобы не раздражаться и не раздражать. Надо просто принять их старость как новую реальность и освоить несколько простых приемов общения, которые помогут в любой ситуации.

For newly diagnosed cancer patients, a uniquely comprehensive and empowering guide offering all the information needed to navigate critical early decisions with clarity, confidence, and a greater sense of control. "You have cancer." Few phrases hit harder—or leave you feeling more lost. Just...

When memory fades, what remains? Sarah Vosburgh has often felt misunderstood by her mother, a woman who lived a quintessential suburban life. But when her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Sarah’s world unravels, and she must confront a disease that will only worsen. As roles reverse between mother and daughter, Sarah faces the guilt of making decisions she hopes are the right ones while also carrying the grief of losing her mom bit by bit everyday. She navigates a labyrinth of health services amid the heartbreaking, and at times darkly humorous, realities of caregiving.

In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her. 88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result. In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a portrait of a mother son relationship, and a sympathetic description of old age, this book is a route map through the moral, legal, emotional, intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms.

Sybille Bullatschek, die resolute Altenpflegerin mit Herz und Humor, und ihre schräg-liebenswerten Senioren vom Haus Sonnenuntergang haben es geschafft: 50.000 Euro bei einer Quizshow abgeräumt! Ziel: Italien! Dort erwartet man die deutschen Quiz-Helden mit offenen Armen, Pasta und Prosecco. Doch was als Freundschaftsbesuch beginnt, nimmt eine turbulente Wendung. Es stellt sich heraus: Casa Serena ist weniger Altersheim, mehr Rückzugsort für pensionierte Mafiosi! Mit Witz und Mut stürzt sich Sybille in ein Abenteuer – zwischen Spaghetti, Spionage und Seniorenpower.

Medical aid in dying has been legal in New Mexico since 2021. This collection of stories about courageous terminally ill adults who have chosen medical aid in dying, is told with compassion and clarity. Dr. Sparks provides the service in New Mexico, one of 10 states, as well as Washington DC, where the practice is legal. NM currently has the most progressive law, and is the model for at least 17 other states seeking passage of similar legislation in 2024.

Overcoming Depression and Low Mood in Older Adults joins the bestselling Routledge Overcoming series, which includes publications that have the seal of approval by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and highly commended by the British Medical Association. This workbook...

Caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease can be overwhelming, confusing, and emotionally draining — especially when you need clear, practical caregiving advice instead of medical jargon. The Dementia Handbook for Caregivers is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for dementia caregivers, family members, and loved ones providing Alzheimer’s care at home.

We are all caregivers. Whether we’re raising kids, caring for aging parents, supporting a loved one, working in health care, or simply showing up for the people in our lives, caregiving is part of who we are. But in the rush to care for others, many of us keep putting ourselves last. We’ve ignored our needs, pushed past our limits, and felt guilty for even daring to pause. It’s time to change that.

In today’s medical world, burnout is rising and rural clinics are left understaffed, and many clinicians feel trapped in a system that has forgotten its purpose. Professionals try cutting hours, switching jobs, even turning to corporate locum tenens agencies—only to find the same disillusionment waiting for them. The frustration is real: exhaustion, moral injury, and the sense that the heart of medicine is slipping away.

Acompañar a un padre con Alzheimer implica mucho más que aceptar un diagnóstico: es aprender a convivir con la incertidumbre, a reorganizar emociones y a descubrir una fortaleza interna que uno nunca imaginó necesitar. En este relato, el autor comparte la historia real de su papá, un médico dedicado cuya presencia comenzó a diluirse con el avance de la enfermedad.

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Care Partners provides an array of essential guidance about the different aspects of dementia for all whose lives are touched by dementia, including people living with dementia and their...

Diese Erzählungen öffnen Fenster zur Vergangenheit und wecken Erinnerungen an schöne, unbeschwerte Zeiten – Momente, die in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Traurigkeit Trost und Freude spenden. Jede Erzählung wurde so gestaltet, dass sie Erinnerungen an glückliche Kindheitstage, besondere Feste und humorvolle Alltagsmomente wachruft – eine wichtige emotionale Stütze für ältere Menschen.

My wife and I have taken care of seven elderly family members, including our parents, over the years. We never had kids and never had to change diapers for little ones. Instead, we ended up changing diapers for big ones – our elderly parents. We’re not elder care professionals. We learned everything on our own from working with estate lawyers, nursing homes, and then funeral directors.

Media darling and director of Memory and Healthy Aging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Zaldy Tan’s What to Remember When You Are Forgetting shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers. Renowned memory and Alzheimer’s disease...