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Geriatrics
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Alzheimer's: A Handbook for the Caretaker
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This is a great manual written by a person who has spent a lifetime caring for these patients, from the onset of the disease until their passing. A great book for the caretakers, but especially helpful for family members, relatives and friends.
Author: Eileen Driscoll
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How to Care for Aging Parents
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The Washington Post calls How to Care for Aging Parents "a compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion.... What sets this book apart from other guides on aging is the recognition that parent care is an emotional roller coaster for both the parent, who may not be accustomed to being a dependent, and for the adult child, who is often frustrated by the overwhelming new task and the guilty feeling that she can't do more."
"A work of great value, written with sensitivity and wisdom...it fulfills an obvious need better than anything I've seen." -- Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, author of How We Die
"This is a tremendous work...truly excellent. It will be a great help to many people." -- Ronald Miller, MD, Medical Director, Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale - New Haven Hospital
Compassionate, timely, and thoroughly researched, How to Care for Aging Parents tackles all the tough subjects: how to avoid "parenting" your parent, understanding what happens to the body in old age, easing caregiver guilt, getting help finding a nursing home, preparing for the time to say good-bye. Virginia Morris, a health-care journalist who cared for her own father through a terminal illness, has given us an indispensable source of information and support.
Included in the book:
- Talking to your parents about tough issues
- Obtaining important legal documents
- Caring from afar
- Adapting to new parent/child roles
- Easing guilt, exhaustion, anger and grief
- Knowing when to intervene
- Finding good medical care
- Tending a failing body (vision, hearing, incontinence, depression, arthritis, etc.)
- Navigating within a hospital
- Aiding independence (living alone, driving, avoiding falls)
- Improving diet, exercise and social life
- Utilizing community services
- Managing home-care workers
- Choosing a nursing home
- Dealing with siblings, bosses and children
- Paying the bills
- Coping with dementia
- Working with hospice
- Growing from grief
Author: Virginia Morris
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It Takes More Than Love: A Practical Guide to Taking Care of an Aging Adult
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Written especially for family members, friends, and spouses of dependent older adults, this vital guidebook addresses both the practical and personal issues confronted by those who are trying to balance their caregiving roles and their personal lives.
Two experts in gerontology and eldercare cover all the critical processes involved in providing safe, effective physical care for frail older people in areas ranging from medications and feeding to bed transfers and toileting. Helpful tips, guidelines, and step-by-step care instructions are presented throughout to promote health maintenance and to maximize functioning in caregivers and care receivers alike.
Unique to this book is the assistance it offers for coping with the personal issues faced by caregivers, including how to
- navigate family relationships
- modify communication patterns to suit physical and psychological changes
- ensure personal health and well-being
- find needed services
Numerous real-life caregiver stories help readers identify with common problems and learn effective problem-solving approaches that are appropriate to their circumstances.
Author: Anita G. Beckerman, ARPN, CS, EdD, and Ruth M. Tappen, EdD, RN, FAAN
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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease...
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Updated with the newest information on Alzheimer's Disease and dementia, this bestselling book has remained the "bible" for families who are giving care toafflicted loved ones.
Author: Nancy L. Mace, MA, and Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
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