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Can we stop the aging process? Life is not just about living longer; we want to live healthier and also feel good. Exercise adds years to your life. It also increases the number of years that you li……続きを見る

The Joyful Caregiver teaches how to be the best caregiver for a loved one in order to help fight their chronic illness. Author, speaker, teacher, and caregiver Josephine Grace uses The Graceful Proc……続きを見る

Being a Good Carer is essential reading for anyone who cares for an elderly person, whether as a professional or as a loved one, in its promotion of the role dignity and respect should play. This ac……続きを見る

The Caregiver's Journey: A Roadmap for Navigating Your Path Written for long-distance caregivers, The Caregiver's Journey summarizes five years of the authors' experiences caring for a Mom living hu……続きを見る

In your tenure as a caregiver, you will most likely avail yourself of home healthcare services at least once. It may well turn out to be the start of your caregiving journey. From an elder care stan……続きを見る

My husband and my goal as caregivers to our parents has been to keep us all together in our home for the remainder of their lives. Our heartfelt belief, from the beginning, was that we could provide……続きを見る

This is the first in a series of books for caregivers of an elderly family member with emphasis on Parkinson's Disease and/or dementia. It is a first-hand guide for preparing your home to care for a……続きを見る

Você precisa de dicas para lidar com os desafios que envolvem cuidar de um idoso? Na sua família, você é o responsável por todos os cuidados e muitas vezes se sente sobrecarregado? Por mais que você……続きを見る

When S.M. Kelly suffers a freak accident near Central Park and shatters her femur, at first, she figures "It's early. . .we can still make dinner and Kinky Boots tonight," as an ambulance hurtles he……続きを見る

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Compari……続きを見る

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses ……続きを見る

Most often children will ask question like, why doesn’t grandma remember my name? Or why can’t grandpa remember where he puts his eyeglasses, not understanding what’s going on with their loved one, ……続きを見る

Grab Happy: The Serendipitous and Surprising Sides of Caregiving and Survival is a practical guide shaped via a memoir-in-essays that explores the harrowing, surreal and often infuriating journey of……続きを見る

'Uren - wat zeg ik? dagen! - heb ik al naar haar zitten kijken, me afvragend wat er in dat hoofd speelt, dat hoofd dat alsmaar kleiner wordt. Ik kijk haar recht in de ogen, maar zij kijkt dwars door……続きを見る

Creating dementia-friendly communities can give people with dementia the chance to continue meaningful lives with reciprocal personal relationships. Underpinning successful dementia-friendly communi……続きを見る

Offers a healing and insightful examination of the issues involved in Alzheimer's for family and caregivers. In this evocative memoir, Nancy Avery Dafoe shares the heart-wrenching experience of cari……続きを見る

Marcel van Roosmalen over zijn dementerende moeder in het verpleegtehuis ten tijde van de coronapandemie – ontroerend eerlijk, droogkomisch en actueel Wanneer de moeder van Marcel van Roosmalen na e……続きを見る

To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and ……続きを見る

An endearing story of an Iowa farmer who meets a beautiful yet spunky young woman in the early 1940s whom he soon marries. War separates them for a time, but their love abounds and even carries them……続きを見る

Linda Seidel's lightly fictionalized memoir lets readers feel what it's like for a naturally skeptical, yetpersistently naïve, older woman to watch her parents age out of life, to think about the ep……続きを見る

Clinical dilemmas in dementia contexts are often not because the clinical facts are in doubt, but because the ethical and legal underpinnings are uncertain - which can cause worry and confusion. Thi……続きを見る

Dementia not only affects the person presented with the diagnosis, but their family and friends too. This book provides practitioners with strategies to support the whole family and understand their……続きを見る

These stories are about love and friendship, hate and regrets in their true and absolute significance in that last stretch of road, about life in its extreme, majestic, unique, inconceivable aspects……続きを見る

What if your path to a more successful, healthy, and satisfying life is actually not about you? Enough About Me equips you with practical tools to find meaning and compassion in even the smallest of……続きを見る

"It's best when the family decides." There is no guidebook on when, or how, to stop treatment of a terminal illness. Offered here is an intimate account of how the myriad end-of-life decisions affec……続きを見る

Desafios como o da pandemia do coronavírus nos colocam de frente com a efemeridade da vida, nos escancaram a inversão de valores de uma sociedade adoecida em sua cultura de consumismo desenfreado e ……続きを見る

While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older revea……続きを見る

It's scary and stressful when it happens…. noticing changes in your parent and becoming increasingly worried about their health and safety. Maybe it's Mom leaving the stove on, Dad getting lost on h……続きを見る

Abuse of senior citizens is often an unspoken or largely ignored problem in India. With the changing lifestyles and moving away from joint families and even nuclear families, this has become a big i……続きを見る

“Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open–hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjectsーgrief, storytelling, the giving up of chil……続きを見る