Long-Term & Elder Care

Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

For 40 years, "The 36-Hour Day" has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades...

For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

With over 1 million social media followers who trust her no-nonsense, easy-to-understand Medicare and Social Security advice, Attorney Sylvia Gordon cuts through the confusion to help you make the right decisions the first time.

There's an ever-growing body of evidence supporting the relatively simple principles that are behind healthy eating - yet the public seems to be more confused than ever....

In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves....

Revolutionizing the way we perceive and live with Alzheimer’s, Joanne Koenig Coste offers a practical approach to the emotional well-being of both patients and caregivers that emphasizes relating to patients in their own reality....

In 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make, expert Danielle K. Roberts—co-founder of Boomer Benefits—shares the most common pitfalls people face when navigating Medicare and shows you how to avoid them.

All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country!

Christie Watson spent 20 years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful audiobook, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients....

Interweaving evocative stories of Dr. Sunita Puri's family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well....

With 77 million Baby Boomers in the United States, people all over the country are worried about receiving the call that their mom, their dad, or their elderly loved one will suddenly have a health crisis with no one nearby to help....

Journalist Thomas Harrison and leading geriatric psychiatrist Brent Forester show that you don’t have to be a medical expert to be a good care provider in this authoritative guide. They explain the basics of dementia and offer effective strategies for coping....

You might be interested in starting your own non-medical home care agency, but you’re overwhelmed with where you should begin. How do you begin the process of getting licensed? When should you start hiring? What else do you need to take care of before you can open....

In The Whole-Body Microbiome, the father-daughter team of Dr. Brett Finlay (a microbiologist) and Dr. Jessica Finlay (a specialist on aging) offers a different - and truly revolutionary - solution to the quest for the fountain of youth....

Ageless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age—an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience.

Florence Nightingale returns to help a medical 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, plus much more....

Written by an international expert on Parkinson's who has confronted the disease firsthand, The Complete Guide serves as the go-to book for comprehensive, easy-to-understand information for all Parkinson's patients and their loved ones....

Get What’s Yours for Medicare is the definitive guide to help you get the most out of your healthcare and ultimately alleviate the stress surrounding the complicated world of Medicare.

Two Old Broads is laugh-out-loud funny and tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years....

From America’s Gerontologist, a practical guide that offers a radical and optimistic approach to longevity.

In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end....

Are you a sudden caregiver? Plenty of research confirms what you may already know: Caregiving is depleting, worrying, and exhausting. Yet a growing body of evidence tells us that while caregiving is depleting, it can also be a source of strength, well-being, and purpose....

His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two, repeat. Until March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries....