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Every Step Is a Gift: Caregiving, Endurance, and the Path to Gratitude explores Josh Lasky’s 11-year journey as a caregiver to his father who battled Parkinson’s disease. Josh was just 21 when he took on this Herculean responsibility, and although his story is unique, it is also universal. In his uplifting and life-affirming journey, Josh’s service to his father turns into a personal source of strength for him after deciding to ride his bike, alone, from Washington, DC, to Portland.

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!

Whether he's initiating a coup d'état against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year-old who once called him a fat slut, Pope Lonergan's work is infinitely varied. This no-holds-barred account shows what life inside a care home is really like, for both residents and carers. Featuring night-time drama, incontinence pads and the uniquely dark humour of one double-amputee Alzheimer's patient, here you can learn everything you ever wanted to know (and a few things you probably really didn't) about Britain's care system.

Written by nationally recognized and award-winning nurse practitioner, Dr. Scharmaine Lawson, NP, this practical guidebook seeks to redefine the nature of long-distance nursing in our post-pandemic world. Drawing on essential insights and reflections on our rapidly evolving healthcare system, House Calls 101 provides a wealth of information on in-home care, telemedicine services, remote patient monitoring, and much more.

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.

A diabetic woman awakens from a coma having forgotten the last 10 years of her life. A Haitian immigrant has nightmares that begin bleeding into his waking hours. A retired teacher loses the use of her right hand due to pain of no known origin. Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she initiated her work, the question took on unexpected urgency, as Arikha’s own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

The Smooth River is the remarkable story of how a well-known public relations expert and her husband met her stage 4 pancreatic cancer head-on. With vigor and strength, they deployed all they and medicine had to offer. But in contrast to narrow conventional approaches, the couple developed a far more expansive view of what strength means in response to a crisis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River.

Do you know what AI is doing to improve our health and well-being? Does this new technology concern you, or impress you? Do you want to know more about the future of AI in health care? Technology continues to advance at a pace that can seem bewildering. Nowhere else is it moving faster than in the health sector, where AI is now being used to improve millions of lives. In this audiobook, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: AI, Machine Learning, and Deep and Intelligent Medicine Simplified for Everyone, you can discover the great improvements that AI is making.

Any of us could receive a diagnosis - a curable sickness, chronic disease, serious condition, or a terminal illness. Today, dying is usually an elongated process. So, how can we live well while suffering, and avoid being bullied by the obsessive inner voices of anxiety that leave us disconnected from the very life we hope to save? Instead, we can learn to embrace mystery, to understand that all of life’s suffering can be transformative, leaving behind a legacy of pure, powerful, and eternal love.

Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill people kill themselves? How should a humane society respond to those who are suffering terribly at the end of life? What laws are being proposed, and what will be the consequences for dying people, for health-care services, and for society as a whole? John Wyatt has worked as a frontline doctor in the UK National Health Service for more than 30 years and brings his clinical, ethical, and personal experience to this crucial debate. Assisted Dying is a concise, audible, and authoritative guide to a vital question of our times.

In The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease, Dr. Jennifer Stelter, a psychologist working in memory care, shares a new model designed to help caregivers understand, cope with, and handle some of the most challenging behaviors associated with the disease while encouraging and reinforcing independence and quality of life for their loved ones.

Expertly combining practical advice with Dr. Scharmaine Lawson, NP’s personal experience as a leading figure in the world of house calls, this complete handbook provides expert insights and essential strategies to help healthcare workers and nurse practitioners navigate the demands of in-home care and set up a flourishing house-call practice. With more and more people requiring in-home care, there has never been a better time to kick-start your house-call practice and familiarize yourself with house call procedures and culture.

Becoming a caregiver for a terminally ill family member is an enormous challenge. This guide is a gift to my late husband, who not only taught me how to live well, but how to die well. I hope it will carry on his legacy of always teaching and sharing, even as he faced the end of his life. A compact guide that you can easily reference along your personal journey, it is filled with practical suggestions to help you, as the caregiver, honor the way your family member would like to create his or her final journey toward paradise.

Caregiver Important Information is all about sharing information to caregivers and those who are now placed in that position to help those in need. This information is from the point of a family member, who had to step in and learn about medications, therapies, and making sure people were doing their jobs. Your family member is precious and should be treated as such.

Dementia caregivers frequently suffer from emotional stress, financial hardship, and fractured families. Discover successful care techniques and useful resources that decrease these stresses from day one. Caregiver Overwhelmed is written by a registered nurse with over 20 years of hands-on experience in elderly care and dementia. As a memory care director and home care clinical manager, she focuses on providing education to both professional and family caregivers. Her expertise is now available for home caregivers in this resource-rich, how-to guide.

Diabetes is a growing health concern worldwide, and in the US alone, about 1.5 million new cases are diagnosed each year. Of those cases, almost 95 percent are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. While the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is a concern, there is some good news: both Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes - an early warning sign that Type 2 diabetes could be round the corner - are possible to reverse.

The sea change of convenience and immediacy that has overtaken our lives has also led to a tremendous gap between what professionals and patients believe to be quality care. This has propagated the tragic environment where almost everyone hates going to the dentist. In The Patient First Manifesto, Dr. Bryan Laskin explains the counterintuitive reasons why patients still complain in our offices everyday, and why patients drive doctors crazy (or at least drive them to drink too often).

Today's caregivers are under extraordinary stress. Right now, we are all looking at the challenges of dealing with a huge aging population (every eight seconds a baby boomer turns 65). This leads to an increasing amount of care being rendered by people who aren’t health care professionals. This wonderful program speaks to all types of caregivers. It consists of a heart-to-heart talk, a reminder of the true source of healing, how the relationship with a caregiver can support this healing, and how important it is to recognize caregiver stress and prevent caregiver burnout.

Nancy C. Caralla, Founding President, Executive Director of the C Diff Foundation, and the C Diff Foundation’s Chairperson of Nutrition Wellness, Karen F. Factor, MS, RD, LDN, share their knowledge and experience with patients who have been diagnosed, treated for, and recovering from a C. difficile infection (CD), with family members, caregivers, and individuals sharing a common interest.

In this lecture, Thomas Moore — internationally known theologian and author of New York Times best sellers Care of The Soul, Soul Mates, and A Life At Work, among other titles — talks about his views on extending the scope of medicine beyond the scientific to include spirituality and deep matters of soul. While a purely scientific approach to medicine can work well in and of itself, Moore also considers the importance of emotions, fantasies, dreams, the physical healing environment, and the relationship of caregiver and patient.