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A dementia diagnosis requires many new changes. Learn valuable tools for effective communication, reducing stress, handling difficult family members, accessing resources, and protecting your family from poor care, inappropriate placement, and other costly mistakes. Exchange fear, denial, and other barriers to success for confidence in becoming a skillful care manager for your loved one - quickly!

This book offers approaches from professionals working with the mind-body connection to reduce stress and anxiety, build motivation and enable individuals to understand and respond to their needs. You will discover the impact of three pillars of health and wellness: Awareness, Information and Learning. This provides you with the framework to deepen your professional knowledge - skills and confidence to support others in times of uncertainty and crisis.

An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill their end of life choices is “written with sensitivity, grace, and candor...not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Dr...

Health care is hard enough for many of us already in its arena. I cannot imagine what it is like to be in your shoes! As such, as I have worked with families over the years, I always tried to break care down into steps they could follow, giving them resources to explore as their loved one either progressed or got worse. Not only can one's health insurance be complicated and at times very confusing, but the health care arena in which we can receive care is also a maze. Even we in the health care profession can find it hard to navigate.

Bloomsbury presents Achieving a Good Death, written and read by Chris Palmer. There is an art to dying well that can be taught and learned. While death is inevitable, dying badly is not. With multiple options available at the end of life, you and your family have the ability to direct this...

A definitive guide to navigating each stage of Alzheimer's and dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers, from international dementia, memory and healthy ageing expert Dr Zaldy Tan. 'I wish this book had been around when we were navigating my mum through dementia … a brilliantly...

You are probably a very busy student with a thousand and one things on your mind! So finding time to study for your Physician’s assistant’s exam is challenging.

Most CHPN prep resources hand you a content outline and wish you luck. This one gives you a complete, neuroscience-backed 3-part learning system that tells you exactly what to study, how to study it, and how to prove you're ready—before you ever sit down for the exam.

A collection of 30 true stories about unsung heroes who quietly changed the world through acts of courage, innovation, and compassion, from inventors to everyday people.

If you’re among the millions of people annually who take on the role of providing unpaid care to family, friends, or neighbors, you are sure to face tough questions. Written in a Q&A format, this easy-to-navigate guide is packed with information, problem-solving and coping ideas, resources, stories, and communication tips.

What began as a simple promise became an entrepreneurial journey to change an industry. In A Culture of Promise: The True Story of a Small Company’s Quest to Transform the Senior Living Industry, author Fee Stubblefield encapsulates the best insights on how to build an organization from the ground up and the challenges and opportunities the senior living industry as a whole faces. Even if you aren’t in senior living you will want to listen to this book because every family and every sector of the economy and government is touched and impacted by our country’s rapidly aging population.

There are over fifty million caregivers in the United States, as of 2020. That's one in five people providing UNPAID care to family, friends and loved ones. There is no discrimination in this statistic, it covers all races, creeds, backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, social classes, rich, poor and on and on. Only recently has it come to light that the stress and mental wear-and-tear on caregivers is not much different than the patients for whom they care.

From a writer and founder of national online support group Caregiver Collective and a caregiver herself, Jennifer N. Levin offers a comprehensive look at our current culture of care, with an emphasis on Millennial caregivers—providing a roadmap to solutions and an immediate call for policy...

Most people don’t realize that Medicaid is available to pay for long term care expenses. Even fewer know that one can legally and ethically qualify for Medicaid before going broke! The book will explain how to take someone with too many assets and qualify them for Medicaid. It will also explain how to protect one's Medicaid eligibility after receiving a sudden influx of assets (such as from a personal-injury settlement or after receiving an inheritance).

Determining when it's time for Hospice care, and an extensive checklist of details to document, questions to ask yourself, and personal decisions to consider in preparation for transition.

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.

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.

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. What if a dementia diagnosis could be an...