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Although it is the unthinkable, all people think about it at some point, or have it in the back of their minds. Whatever your thoughts about skilled nursing homes are, the images are not always pleasant. Whether you are aging yourself, have aging parents, or have a disability, who will provide for you? Is skilled nursing the answer, and what will it cost? Carefully choosing options, knowing what those selections mean, and demystifying the process is the central theme of Love and Loss: The Storied Nature of Nursing Home Care.

Caregiving can be a positive experience if families better understand aging, understand the disease their loved one has, learn how to improve family communication, and have an aging plan. The Invisible Patient provides inspiration, encouragement, and step-by-step guidance to ease the caregiving journey. The author leaves no stone unturned, providing personal anecdotes and scenarios about the caregiving process, and includes numerous references and resources in this guide to caring for the caregiver.

Read by the author. In My Two Elaines, author Marty Schreiber, former governor of Wisconsin, watches his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman he fell in love with in high school, and who diligently supported his political career, to the Elaine who knows she is declining and...

In Amaging™, author Margie Hackbarth reveals the ways affirmations help us set and achieve meaningful goals during this phase of life’s journey. This includes how to recognize and tackle unconscious and deep-rooted age bias. She teaches how to pause to reflect, then guides listeners to shift from reluctantly aging to intentionally aging.

"Älter werden wir alle, auf das Wie kommt es an." Wie es gelingt, geistig jung, gesund und voller Elan zu bleiben, lebt uns Dr. med. Marianne Koch vor. "Erfolgreich altern" nennt sie das, und was alles dazugehört, erzählt sie hier. Marianne Koch beleuchtet physiologische wie psychische Aspekte, die das Altern mit sich bringt. Sie geht auf das Selbstbewusstsein ein, auf Ernährung und Bewegung, auf lebenslanges Lernen, das Problem der Einsamkeit, den Umgang mit Verlusten und zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, die Lust am Neuen nicht zu verlieren. Am Ende steht die Frage: Wer bin ich heute - und wer möchte ich morgen sein?

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.  

Judy Gaman was so busy making a name for herself that she barely took the time to meet a stranger, enjoy life, or simply stop to breathe. Immersed in her job as the director of business development for a high-profile medical practice - a job that required her to write health and wellness books and host a nationally syndicated radio show - she spent every day going full speed ahead with no looking back. That is, until the day she met Lucille Fleming. What began as a quick meeting became a lasting friendship that transformed into an inseparable bond.

Ein Neuanfang mit Patina muss nicht immer verstaubt sein. Er kann auch glänzen! Gerade fünfzig geworden und alles auf Anfang? Als die quirlige Carola herausfindet, dass ihr Mann sie betrügt, steigt sie aus der gemeinsamen Firma aus und fängt noch einmal von vorn an. Geht nicht gibt's nicht. So sucht sie ihr neues Glück auf unterschiedlichen Wegen: über Fortbildungskurse, eine Typveränderung, Dating-Apps und neue Bekanntschaften. Doch es geht eben nicht mehr alles so einfach wie mit zwanzig.

In Your Caregiver Relationship Contract, Hallisey, discusses how caregiving changes the everyday lives of the caree, the caregiver, and their circle of loved ones. She uses examples from her own life, as well as many of her clients, to help you work through your elderly parents’ expectations, how to set caregiver boundaries, the need to structure hard conversations with mom and dad, and how to pull together a support network for caregiver self-care. Her book aims to bolster these ever-changing roles and provide guidance in navigating the caregiver contract.

The decisions we make from our hearts, using good guidance and information, are often the best ones. Our culture focuses on reactionary health care rather than proactive life decisions. This approach can be devastating if we wait too long to choose a positive living environment.

A practical, compassionate guide to caring for a loved one with dementia written by an RN with 40 years experience.

So the cover picture is how our household scene was layout of house: our fur family, cozy love sofa, Dave’s computer cave, Mom’s comfy recliner, and my kitchen, a.k.a. crying/sipping station. Cheers! In advance! Sip, sip. Have your favorite drink ready for this Tipsy Caregiver’s tale. Dementia, a.k.a. the d-word, put all the sadness and heartbreak aside for a moment.

Right now, all across the world, many people are losing hope. It is being replaced by fear - fear of the unknown, fear of poverty, fear of a global pandemic; fear of death and violence, fear of turmoil and social upheaval. We are in the middle of transition, and change frightens people. My primary purpose for writing this book was to rekindle hope within the hearts and minds of humanity, especially my fellow Christians, because we are the ones who harbor the ultimate hope of the universe.

Cynthia Ruchti and Becky Melby know all too well how adjusting to a new, all-the-time closeness can cause the bliss of marriage to form blisters. Drawing from their experiences, and from men and women across the country in the same situation, the authors take a deep breath and dive into the root causes of the discomfort. They dig into the ways God's word addresses the topic, and they offer practical tips for learning the spiritual, emotional, relational, and even physical steps that can help listeners replace irritation with peace. 

Women today feel a constant pressure to improve themselves and just never feel like they’re “enough.” All too often, they live their daily lives disheartened, disillusioned, and disappointed. That’s because joy doesn’t come from a new self-improvement strategy; it comes from rooting their identity in who God says they are and what he has done on their behalf.

What if everything you thought you knew about aging was wrong? This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood. Ageism Unmasked...

America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family’s china, and even the kids' height charts aren’t just stuff; they’re attached to a lifetime of...

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a “superb” (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air), darkly funny memoir of his mother’s vibrant life and the many ways in which their...

A record-breaking bodybuilder. A sex-positive dominatrix. A gaming pioneer with close to a million subscribers. A musical trailblazer who’s queering country music. They sound like a gang of social media influencers and young rising Hollywood stars. But nearly all of them are over 70 years old. In this series, Miriam Margolyes meets a new wave of seniors who are ripping up the rulebook when it comes to ageing, to learn what they can teach us about living life to the full, whether you’re 19 or 90.

At 20, Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the church to arrange their shotgun wedding, she discovered that he hadn't even told her his real name. Sixty-odd years later, Ann looks back on that first glorious fall, and in a series of essays considers what she has learned from the life that followed.

In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and...

Ian Brown, author of the award-winning The Boy in the Moon, recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Ian asks all the terrifying questions about growing old, even as he admits he doesn't know all the answers. In Seventy...

Being a grandparent...is the highlight of your golden years. But how can you make the most of this time and leave a legacy for generations to come? With the help of their children, their spouses, and 22 grandchildren, Winston and Linda Egan have written this guide to show you how you can build close, loving relationships in your family while creating memories that last forever.

Yes there is! And it may not be what you think.... Marcus Pearce has interviewed more than 200 of the world’s most successful men and women. From diet experts to war survivors to everyday Exceptionals and some of humanity’s greatest icons. What makes them exceptional? What’s their secret?

Never Too Late for Love is the guide for women who are ready to find and keep the love of their life. At age 62, Joan Bragar, EdD, leadership consultant and coach, married the man of her dreams. The lessons she learned from this journey have inspired other women to find happiness in love.

My stepmother, June, lived alone until her nineties, but over time, she fell into the depths of dementia. With no biological children of her own, I was the one left to guide her down the path toward the end of her life. Haunted by my father's last words to me to take care of his Junie, I couldn't walk away from this difficult task.

Guidance for those facing the end of life transition of a loved one. Useful information along with comforting stories, poems and prayers, to help your loved one, yourself, family, and friends through the challenging days ahead. A book to share. A book to keep.

Who doesn’t want another shot at childhood? The key to opening that door is your grandchildren. Coauthors Siegel and Zinberg provide a concise, down-to-earth guide for both grandparents and parents. Each of the 52 straightforward nourishing practices provide methods of mindfulness, along with endearing real-life stories that grandparents can identify with.

In Now What? Managing the Emotional Journey of Long Term Care for Families, Deborah combines her many personal experiences as a resident's wife and daughter with her industry insight to provide a framework for managing this major life change. Now What? is your playbook to manage this emotional journey so you can transition through this very important role with more ease and grace, and less guilt and anxiety.

Dementia is a slow and upcoming epidemic that can be a pandemic in the long run. And the truth is, there is no cure and none coming soon. Whether a person has Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, they all come across similar problems mostly. So, why not prepare yourselves with the evidence-based information available up till now. This is a simple, easy-to-listen-to, indispensable guide written by an occupational therapist.

Shifting Gears is based on interviews with 50 retirees. The stories reveal the rich abundance of retirement ventures, from the exotic to the mundane. Discover what each of them learned in their journey in this next stage of life.

If you are a baby boomer like me, you may be having to take care of your parents, spouse, or partner at home; either by yourself or have a hired caregiver to help. My book is filled with my 40 years of nursing caregiving experience on how you can do this.

Grab-and-go inspirations are here in bite-sized pieces. There are my rules and gifts to you for growing a good life - even in the confusing soils of caregiving. Inside-out survival that is both practical and doable. Caregiving is love’s race. And that is the miracle of taking care. This book is about those more balanced choices.

Caring for a parent, spouse, or relative who cannot care for themselves due to age, infirmity, or illness is one of the noblest human activities. It’s also one of the most stressful, posing challenges that can be painful, confusing, frustrating, and deeply rewarding - sometimes all at once. When Caregiving Calls is an invitation to a deep conversation about caregiving and its meaning for you.

Elderly Parent Caregiver Guide is the ultimate guide for adult children who are or will become their parents’ caregivers. Filled with valuable information and ideas, this book offers hope, support, and plenty of practical advice for anyone caring for their elderly parents. As the author guides you through the maze of caregiving, she shares her knowledge as a nurse and examples from her own journey of caregiving for her elderly parents.

Living with Momma offers personal narratives and sacred stories for caregivers searching for measurable peace as they navigate unexpected paths within 21st-century families. Sixty-three million Americans are caring for aging parents and grown children at the same time, and they often find themselves wondering, “How is it possible to care for our families and ourselves at the same time?” In Living with Momma, Elizabeth Adams, an author and pastor, uses her life experiences, along with the wisdom found in open-ended questions, to show caregivers how they can.

In Women Who Spark After 50, Aleta will continue to inspire the spark within you by sharing stories of midlife women who got up and got busy, helping you tap into unrealized dreams and passions, giving you the courage, and a roadmap, to put your dreams first after years of taking care of others.

Begin Again.... Life is daily improv...so is caregiving and a good life. Try these first eight ideas. They insure survival. These eight rules will, when practiced, get you to a more grounded place to access a good life, well lived...no matter what is in front of you today. Begin Again... with eight bite-sized daily rules. When practiced, this book with its eight rules will keep you centered in the challenges of caregiving. They are my rules to life by.

A profound collection of prayers, poems, and thoughts written by caregivers, Prayers in My Gumbo will help caregivers navigate the beautiful and sometimes difficult caregiver's journey. This simple book offers solace, hope, and inspiration through the five steps of the caregiving journey. It encourages faith as it demonstrates a wide range of praying styles and messages of hope.

We all are worried about our parents, especially those who are living alone. My parents are growing old, and I am stepping into that age. As I am stepping to that age, I started to think about how they are managing alone and how I am going to lead. This idea of diary clicked to our mind to give aggregate information on growing old. To make a tourist guide booklet where space is provided to jot down the mindful checklist and record history of any related decline (early signs) while travelling into this age, including a home-exercise program.

Author Karen R. Weaver shares her inspirational journey as a caregiver, and includes questions and prayers to encourage and inspire other caregivers to keep going and perhaps consider sharing their own stories.