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Surviving Myotonic Dystrophy is about Ann S. Woodbury’s struggle to care for her family who have a rare disease - myotonic dystrophy (DM). Ann’s four children and her husband have DM. In 1998, at the time of the diagnosis, even the doctors didn’t know all of the effects of DM or that it was a brain disorder. Listening to this book will take you on a journey of understanding this disease and its effects on Ann’s family members.

This heart-wrenching and triumphant love story is a tale of advocacy and caregiving. Donna's husband, David, stumbled into their bedroom, his hand covering a blood-filled eye from a brain hemorrhage. Donna called 911. David slipped into a coma. At that moment, Donna was thrust onto the path of caregiver for her best friend and the love of her life. In her debut memoir, Donna shares how a neurosurgeon said that David would make a "great organ donor".

After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life. Yes. Enjoying. She knew just where she wanted to be, with whom, doing what, and she communicated this to her family and friends with clarity and consistency. She died nine weeks later, having engaged in dying with equanimity, curiosity, and even amusement.

Are you troubled by inexplicable pain for years? Have you made it a habit of taking painkillers? Are doctors helpless on your condition? Do you want to get rid of your pain right now? Are you looking for a treatment that is simple, affordable, and can be practiced on your own? In this practical and action-oriented book, patients share their experience and feedback on a variety of pains by trying a therapy that has a proven record of 2,500+ years, and is still serving billions of people all over the world.

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. By taking a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate these new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work.

While the nightmare of Alzheimer’s is progressing at an alarming rate, society will never solve it if it continues on the same path. Dr. Zielonka’s simple seven-step solution to prevent the nightmare of Alzheimer’s is the logical, science-based solution to end the nightmare. Discover the real causes of Alzheimer's, learn about true brain detoxification, autophagy, type 3 diabetes, cellular health, and so much more.

Caring for someone who has Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia is a daunting task that can leave most caregivers drained, strained, and depressed. Many find comfort in knowing they are not alone and in being able to share their experiences with someone who understands what they are going through. Caregivers need all the support and tools they can garner to help them survive this experience. Such was the reason for writing I Love You Always, which is an honest account of one family’s experiences from diagnosis and beyond.

Help Is Here: When a Resident Has Dementia is for staff members in senior residences who are caring for residents with dementia. This book is full of examples of situations that happen at senior residences and how to effectively handle those situations.

Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don’t forget that your employer’s share of your premium is coming out of your salary. And unfortunately, you are not alone. What can you do to avoid unnecessary costs and encourage American healthcare reform? Ripped Off! is your guide to better understanding the problems of the American healthcare system and what you can do for yourself and how to help enact change.

Willst Du die Grundprinzipien der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie kennenlernen? Möchtest Du die verschiedenen Verfahren der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie in Erfahrung bringen? Willst Du praktische Anleitungen erlernen, die Du bei Angst- und Panikstörungen, Burn-out, Depressionen und Störungen der Impulskontrolle anwenden kannst? Mit der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie zu einem unbeschwerten Leben.

El acompañamiento terapéutico es un recurso que nace en el ámbito de la salud mental hace ya más de 60 años en Argentina. Actualmente, se inmiscuye cada vez más en espacios cotidianos para favorecer también la inclusión de personas con discapacidad. Hoy el acompañamiento terapéutico es una herramienta que, por sus características de flexibilidad y dinamismo, permite a los profesionales de la salud y educación, así como a las familias, contar con un apoyo externo que potencia las posibilidades de inclusión de personas con discapacidad en la escuela y en la sociedad.

Karen Cumming and Patricia Milne are sisters who embarked on a daunting journey...one that many of us may go on at some point in our lives. They guided their 98 year old mother, Verna, through Ontario's long-term care system. Unfortunately, few people on the inside of that system seemed to be guiding them. This audiobook is the survival guide they never had. Packed with indispensable resources, tips and insights, it will help you and your family to be proactive and prepared for the decisions that lie ahead. You are not alone.

Hope After Stroke is like having a personal therapist at your side, simplifying the medical jargon, answering your questions, guiding and empowering you each step of the way. You’ll discover practical tools and strategies you can use in the hospital, when you come home, and upon re-entering your community and workplace. This easy-to-follow, evidence-based resource guide puts all the most important information in one place. It will help you understand what to expect, what to look out for, and what "stroke thrivers" do to recover.

Many of us caregivers face uncertain future, while caring and providing for our elderly loved ones. Being responsible for the needs and care of an elderly loved one can be a difficult role that many of us do willingly, but it requires a lot of patience, time, energy, tenderness, and hard work. We often need to make decisions which are life-altering for our loved ones and for our own selves and, at times, are not pleasant or easy.

Florence Nightingale returns to Memorial Medical Center to help the leadership team foster a stronger culture of ownership. In this heartwarming and thought-provoking story you will learn: why no one ever checks the oil in a rental car, and proven strategies to foster a culture of ownership; why a culture of ownership requires people who are Emotionally Positive, Self Empowered, and Fully Engaged; and much more.

Can learning about Medicare actually be fun? Probably not, but it doesn’t have to be miserable like most books will make you feel. Medicare for the Lazy Man is a quick and thorough guide created by a highly qualified expert. It will show how to slide through that encounter with Medicare and squirt out the other side with the best protection available on the market today. In very short order listeners will learn exactly what needs to be done and when.

If you or a loved one are facing an "end of life" experience, Seven Keys to a Peaceful Passing provides an informative and warm-hearted view on how to make the hospice system function best for patients and families. This easy-to-read road map guides you through important decisions which will help ensure a “peaceful passing”.

In this book, award-winning journalist Beth Baker tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable.

Would you like to be free of stress, anxiety, all types of physical discomfort, and start enjoying life way more than you do now? Or maybe you want to gain more knowledge about Vagus Nerve and your nerve system in general? Stress, anxiety, and depression have a big impact while accelerating diseases and making people sick. This audiobook is going to be like a tool for people so they can use it to learn how to control and heal their nerve system and explain the importance of Vagus Nerve which has the biggest impact on the health in our inner body.

It's hard to talk about death in America. But even though the topic has been taboo, life's end is an eventual reality. So why not shape it to our values? Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick.