Aging Parents

Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions

A USA Today BESTSELLER! “Informative. Complete. And practical. This book will guide family caregivers through the surprisingly complex world of senior care.”―MEHMET OZ, M.D., New York Times bestselling coauthor of YOU: The Owner’s Manual: The Complete All-in-One Care Guide Choosing the best care for your aging parents and other seniors in your life is not only …

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Elder Rage, or Take My Father… Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

Elder Rage” is a Book-on-the-Month Club selection (a caregiving book first), receiving 500+ 5-Star Amazon reviews. It is a riveting, often LOL humorous, non-fiction novel chronicling Jacqueline Marcell’s trials, tribulations, and eventual success at managing the care of her aging parents. “Elder Rage” is also an extensive self-help book with creative solutions for …

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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God

Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it. In this book John Swinton develops a practical theology of dementia for caregivers, people with dementia, ministers, hospital chaplains, …

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King Lear (Norton Critical Editions)

This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio text of King Lear (carefully corrected prior to its printing in 1623). The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I (including the “mock-trial” scene) as is fully explained in both “A Note on the Text” and the annotations that accompany the play. “Sources” helps …

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The Validation Breakthrough, Third Edition

Validation is a practical way of communicating with and managing problem behavior in older adults with Alzheimer’s-type dementia. It helps reduce stress, enhance dignity, and increase happiness. Since its inception in 1989, Validation has helped thousands of professional and family caregivers improve their relationships with residents and loved ones with dementia. Caregivers who use these techniques validate older …

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A Loving Approach to Dementia Care: Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementia or Memory Loss

Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however. They need the guidance this book provides to overcome caregiving obstacles and cultivate more meaningful relationships with loved ones who have dementia and memory loss.Laura Wayman’s program of care emphasizes …

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Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment

Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children either through maltreatment or through the effects of parental psychiatric disorder. Raising Parents explains how that happens and clusters parents in terms …

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Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence

“One of those rare books that can drastically lighten even the heaviest of loads.”—Rosalynn Carter “Trust me: there is no better guide to caregiving.” —Bill Moyers Gail Sheehy, author of the groundbreaking Passages—which was a New York Times bestseller for more than three years—now brings us Passages in Caregiving. In this essential guide, the acclaimed expert on the now aging Baby …

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Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

The Great Michigan Read 2013-14 Michigan Notable Book for 2010 A Washington Post Book World’s “Best Books of 2009,” Memoir Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth’s death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Steve Luxenberg’s mother always told people she was an only child. It was …

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Displacement

In the latest volume of her graphic travelogue series, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley must care for her grandparents on a cruise. In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, …

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