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Looking for stories that spark joy, evoke fond memories, and foster meaningful conversations? 100 Short Stories for Seniors and Adults brings laughter and warmth to seniors, adults, and their families. These carefully crafted tales are designed to uplift, entertain, and create lasting connections.

With advances in science showing that the environment around a cancer cell contributes and plays a critical role in the disease, this essential work illustrates how such care improves patient outcomes and enhances the satisfaction and wellbeing of healthcare providers.

Start Your Own $300K Home Care Agency Transform your passion for caregiving into a thriving, high-impact business with this comprehensive guide to building and scaling a successful home care agency. Whether you're starting with limited resources or looking to take your existing business to the next level, this book provides the roadmap you need to achieve your goals. Packed with actionable strategies, real-life examples, and practical advice, this step-by-step guide will empower you to: Launch on a Budget: Discover how to start your home care business with minimal investment while ...

In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms listeners with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.

End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day. From working with the living, the dying, the dead and the grieving, Anna and Louise reveal the lessons they’ve learned about life, death, love and loss. Together they’ve created a profound but practical guide to rethinking the one thing that’s guaranteed to happen to us all.

Being a caregiver for aging parents, close friends and family, and other elders in your life is an overwhelming experience, whether you are one who has stepped into this role without warning or one who is also contemplating their own care plan. Now in its fourth edition, The Complete Eldercare Planner will help you navigate today’s complex caregiving landscape while addressing your unique needs.

Overthinking in Relationships and Survivors of Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Guide to Mental Health and Aging emerges as a beacon of light, offering a repository of understanding and strategies for those entrenched in the dual challenges of caregiving and personal mental health. This compassionate guide delves deep into the heart of Alzheimer’s caregiving, coupled with the pervasive challenge of overthinking in personal relationships.

Are you overwhelmed by the emotional demands of caregiving and searching for practical guidance? Do you struggle with understanding dementia's progression and wish you had clear answers? Want to care for your own well-being without feeling guilty? If these questions resonate with you, you're not alone. As a caregiver of a loved one with dementia, you face unique challenges that can feel isolating and all-consuming. But gaining the skills to manage these challenges can transform your caregiving journey.

Discover how to empower yourself as a dementia caregiver and reclaim your life, even if you've been overwhelmed with stress for years. Do you find yourself struggling with the overwhelming responsibilities of dementia caregiving? Are you constantly seeking practical advice to manage challenging behaviors and juggle caregiving with personal responsibilities? Do you sometimes feel isolated, longing for a community that truly understands your journey? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, take heart – you're in the right place.

How do you help someone...who helps someone? You put 30 years of experience into their hands! Drawing upon an astonishing three decades as a caregiver for his wife, author/radio host Peter Rosenberger brings his wealth of experience to today's massive caregiver population.

Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent.

This helpful and encouraging resource offers support for everyone accompanying someone at the end of life - from the moment we first learn that someone is dying through the time of death and beyond. Kirsten DeLeo shares down-to-earth advice and offers simple practices to help us handle our emotions, deal with difficult relationships, talk about what matters, listen fully, practice self-care, and work through challenging situations with presence and grace.

Mark enjoyed his carefree bachelor's life in Los Angeles. He had no steady girlfriend, no children, few responsibilities outside of work. But that all changed when "The Call" came. Genevieve, his eighty-nine-year-old mother, was on her deathbed. He rushed back to New Jersey to be by her side. Hours became days, days became weeks, then she woke up. So, he moved back into his childhood home and took over her care. His first task was to remove all hazards, which included the current caregivers.

Caring for a loved one with dementia can feel like an impossible task, but it doesn't have to be. Imagine having a step-by-step guide that simplifies your daily routines, keeps your loved one safe, and helps you regain peace of mind. Listeners are already experiencing the transformative power of these tools, with ready-to-use checklists, safety tips, and medication management strategies that take the guesswork out of caregiving.

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.

Research on this syndrome continues to evolve, but in the meantime patients and their medical providers are left feeling lost and hopeless. In this new and exciting audiobook, dual-boarded neuropsychiatrist J.D. Claunch, MD dives into the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of long COVID. More than just the science of this illness, Dr. Claunch paints a picture of the suffering and medical trauma experienced by patients with long COVID and older versions of this post-infectious chronic illness, like chronic Lyme and myalgic encephalomyelitis.

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.

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.

Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care - to become an ICU physician - and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter's journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another - a doctor who prioritizes the patient's values and preferences.

The prospect of a long-term commitment to caregiving for someone with dementia can trigger overwhelming fear, leaving you uncertain about where to even begin. The feeling of helplessness can be difficult to bear! Fortunately, you'll find answers and practical tools in this helpful caregiver handbook. Discover strategies to care for your loved one while not losing yourself in the process.