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As we grow older more of us will be called upon to care for aging parents, spouses, siblings, close friends, or even our children. Experience and the advice of experts can help you prepare for this physical and emotional task. Topics include medical needs and equipment, nursing skills, personal care for patient and self, mental health for patient and self, financial and insurance interests, and death and dying at home.
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On the Road: Caring for an Aging Parent Particularly addresses the financial issues of caregiving a parent: from housing options to nursing homes, and what to expect from Medicaid and Social Security 2006 |
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Beerman, Susan The Eldercare 911 Question and Answer Book Companion book to "Eldercare 911 The Complete Caregiver's Handbook." This is a compilation of other's experiences, questions, letters, comments, advice and recommendations that can help you decide what to do. Advice on "saying no", special sections for men and women, family matters, preventing burnout and words of hope and comfort. 2005 |
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Berman, Claire Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents With an aging population there is so much need to care for those with illness, dementia, and frailty. Along with the physical demands most caregivers go through a torturous path of emotions and guilt. This author helps in finding peace with ourselves by teaching us that "If we are to be successful in managing the care of others, we must first learn to care for ourselves." Includes resources section. 2006 |
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Buck, Jari Holland Hospital Stay Handbook: A Guide to Becoming a Patient Advocate for Your Loved Ones Every patient needs a stong advocate. Advocates save lives. Modern medicine offers wonderous drugs and treatments, but anyone who has been hospitalized, has a chronic illness or requires any kind of monitoring needs a family member, friend or healthcare partner. Someone has to learn and understand the "system", to: assist, question, consult, challenge, complain, track and record details for those in the healing process. Don't go to the hospital without this book! 2007 |
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Carnot, Edward J. Is Your Parent in Good Hands?: Protecting Your Aging Parent from Financial Abuse and Neglect A personal narrative of a son's discovery of misuse and abuse of his father's assets and personal care by an unscrupulous housekeeper. Chapters review ways and resources to help prevent exploitation of the vunerable elderly. 2004 |
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Delehanty, Hugh Caring for Your Parents: The Complete AARP Guide As you hit your own middle age, your parents are entering a challenging stage themselves. With issues of aging, health, finance, care and living arrangements, this can be a time to grow closer in your relationship with them, but may also be fraught with hardships and sad difficulties. This AARP guide is a resource full of strategies, innovations, recommendations, work sheets, and proven methods for helping you and your aging parents live their lives to the fullest. Also in DVD format 2005 |
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Henry, Stella Mora The Eldercare Handbook: Difficult Choices, Compassionate Solutions For many of us there will come a time when we will have to help our parents make a change in their living situations. Ms. Henry provides an accessible guide to navigate us through the tough issues and options for; spotting the warning signs, kinds of facilities, decisions to be made and emotional pain all might suffer. Included is a guide through the mazes of Medicare, Medicaid, insurance and legal issues. 2006 |
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Jacobs, Barry J. The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent If you are reading from this list of books you are probably also finding that caregiving takes a toll on everyone involved. Dr. Jacobs offers advice and hope for being a successful helper, for avoiding burnout and frustration while going through a tough and trying experience. 2006 |
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Loverde, Joy The Complete Eldercare Planner : Where to Start Which Questions to Ask and How to Find Help This is not a book to "read." This is a book to "use." Since most of us are unprepared to accept the challenges of caring for our elder adults, we would benefit by planning for the physical, emotional, and financial issues that come with assisting those that can no longer care for themselves. Book provides information, tips on organizing, balancing work and family responsibilites, navigating eldercare services, checklists, action plans, resources. 2009 |
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Meyer, Maria M. The Comfort of Home : a Complete Guide for Caregivers This is one title in a series of books that begin with: "The Comfort of Home." Other editions are specifically published for Alzheimer's disease, Chronic lung disease, Strokes, Parkinson disease, and Multiple Sclerosis. They all cover the basics of understanding symptoms and patients needs, give practical advice for help with daily care routines, and ways to enlist help to prevent "burnout". 2007 |
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Pearce, Nancy D. Inside Alzheimer's: How to Hear and Honor Connections with a Person Who Has Dementia Written for anyone trying to make a meaningful connection with a person suffering from dementia. This book is for those whose loved one loses touch to "our world", who want to find a way to reach out, enter and relate to them in "his/her world". The author tells stories to help see inside the disease process and suggests six basic principles to help approach and make connections with the person who has dementia. 2007 |
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Puchta, Charles The Caregiver Resource Guide: Blessed are the Caregivers Experts say that 80% of us will be called on to be caregivers or will be one of those cared for. A statistic cited in this book says: "It is estimated that there are more than 45 million family caregivers providing care to loved ones. 2.7 million children with developmental disabilities live at home with a family caregiver. One in four lives with a cargiver who is age 60 or older. This does not include persons with cancer, AIDS, Down syndrome, Huntington's etc." This is a resource that tells you "Things you need to know before you know you need them." 2005 |
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Rosenbaum, Ernest H. Everyone's Guide to Cancer Supportive Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Patients and Their Families Here is a guide for both patients and their families. It covers a wide range of topics including: diagnosis and treatments, attitutinal and emotional issues, mind and spirit aspects and it offers help in making informed decisions about the day-to-day living with cancer. 2005 |
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