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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life, 4th Edition
: :Revised in 2006 for its twenty-fifth anniversary, this best-selling book is the 'bible' for families caring for people with Alzheimer disease, offering comfort and support to millions worldwide. In addition to the practical and compassionate guidance that have made The 36-Hour Day invaluable to caregivers, the fourth edition is the only edition currently available that includes new information on medical research and the delivery of care. The new edition includes:-new information on diagnostic evaluation-resources for families and adult children who care for people with ...
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The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff
: :A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the often difficult family interactions and feuds that accompany them. With fascinating stories and comprehensive checklists, professional estate liquidator Julie Hall walks Baby Boomers through the often painful challenge of dividing the wealth and property of their parents' lifetime accumulation of stuff. From preparation while the parent is still living through compassionately helping them empty the ...
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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer's Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
: :A guide to caring for an Alzheimer's patient provides the basic facts about dementia and shows readers how to deal with daily care, get outside help, and handle financial issues. Reissue. NYT.
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
: :“David Shields has accomplished something here so pure and wide in its implications that I almost think of it as a secular, unsentimental Kahlil Gibran: a textbook for the acceptance of our fate on earth.” —Jonathan LethemMesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion—an exploration that paradoxically prompts a ...
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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
: :One journalist’s riveting—and surprisingly hopeful—in-the-trenches look at Alzheimer’s, the disease that claimed her mother’s life Like many loved ones of Alzheimer’s sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person before claiming her life altogether. To deal with the pain of her loss, and to better understand the confounding aspects of living with a disease that afflicts four and a half million people every year, Kessler enlisted as a caregiver at a facility she calls ...
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Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
: :For more than two decades, hospice nurse Maggie Callanan has tended to the terminally ill and been a cornerstone of support for their loved ones. Now the coauthor of the classic bestseller Final Gifts passes along the lessons she has learned from the experts—her patients. Here is the guide we all need to understanding the special needs of the dying and those who care for them. In her work with thousands of families, Maggie Callanan has witnessed the tears, the love—and the confusion and ...
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Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return
: :Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition.The New York Times wrote a front page story on Mary Ellen on Thanksgiving 2005. It was one of the most e-mailed stories for the month. Through her ...
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The Complete Eldercare Planner, Second Edition: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
: :'Am I doing the right thing?' 'I work full-time -- how can I be in two places at once?' 'Who's going to pay for Mom's home care?' 'How do I bring up sensitive subjects like their money, moving, and not driving?' 'Do we need long-term-care insurance?' 'Wait! Do I really want Dad to move in?' 'Where do my parents keep their legal documents?' 'Do they have a will?' Caring for elderly loved ones can be a full-time job--on top of regular work and family ...
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Creating Moments of Joy: A Journal for Caregivers, Fourth Edition (NEW COVER)
: :Jolene Brackey has a vision. A vision that will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease and focus more of our energy on creating moments of joy. When a person has short-term memory loss, his life is made up of moments. But if you think about it, our memory is made up of moments, too. We are not able to create a perfectly wonderful day with someone who has dementia, but it is absolutely attainable to create a perfectly wonderful moment; a moment ...
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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
: :Mary Pipher's phenomenal New York Times bestseller-a book about us and our parents...'[Pipher] ventures into communities and then returns to explain their truths and ways of being to the rest of us in clear, clean English. Totally accessible...[Another Country] is a compassionate...look at the disconnect between baby boomers and their aging parents or grandparents.' -USATodayThere are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws.They are living longer, but in a culture ...
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