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What comes to mind when you hear the words "nursing home"? Probably nothing positive, particularly if you're not familiar with nursing homes as they exist today. But given the aging of the baby boomer generation, chances are that you, someone in your family, or someone you know will become a nursing home resident soon. The good news? Nursing homes are better than ever. They strive to provide a high quality of life for their residents, and there is a wide range of facility choices and levels of care.

Is your loved one showing signs of forgetfulness and are you wondering if it is old age or dementia? In the US, 6.5 million Americans over the age of 65 live with the disease today. How do you know if it is not just old age? Learn the difference between old age forgetfulness and dementia. This audiobook will be one of the most useful references for those who are looking for more information to help a person with dementia or learn to cope with everything that is happening around them.

Every year, the number of baby boomers in retirement with living parents is increasing due to healthier lifestyles and increasing technology. The reality of old people taking care of old people is becoming a way of life for so many that there is an increasing need for support and coping mechanisms. After spending many years in the home health industry, and hearing all the "stories", the author examines coping experiences with her family under the unbelievably ridiculous circumstances in this story.

This book gives a voice to thousands of families and patients who have experienced neglect and abuse while in a nursing home. 

After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life. Yes. Enjoying. She knew just where she wanted to be, with whom, doing what, and she communicated this to her family and friends with clarity and consistency. She died nine weeks later, having engaged in dying with equanimity, curiosity, and even amusement.

By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one-third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease-free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll discover the science on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including heart health, diabetes and dementia, and boost your everyday behaviours to improve your enjoyment of life.

For nearly a decade, Jackie watched over her father's care. She quickly found her world filled with adult diapers, a pharmacy of pills, and days heavily laced in utter boredom. As the days melted together, Jackie came to understand what her father was teaching her - how to live in constant gratitude and with a heart full of love.

Marvin D. Bryson acted as a primary caregiver for over a decade. Coping with Caregiving is a follow-up to his previous book, Expectancy: A Caregiver's Story of Navigating Family Issues Between Retirement and Transition, that details how he and his siblings cared for a parent with dementia that lived into her early 90s. Coping with Caregiving picks up where Expectancy ended (assisted living care), and contains new chapters on skilled nursing, palliative care, hospice care, and self care, along with an updated glossary of legal and medical terminology.

In Medicare Decoded: Shocking Facts to Help You Save Money and Get the Most from Medicare, elder advocate and Medicare expert Rick Solofsky guides you through the twists and turns of Medicare to get to the heart of what you need to know. Easy to understand and filled with essential information and strategies, Medicare Decoded answers your questions.

Marc's family is devastated by his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis. After three challenging years, Marc sees new doors open for healing that until now he had not believed were possible. Despite fierce opposition and a ruthless foe, a wondrous journey unfolds before them as the Holy Spirit leads the way to liberation. From Alzheimer's with Love is the true-life story of a six-month journey from deterioration to restoration from this devastating disease.

Caregiver Important Information is all about sharing information to caregivers and those who are now placed in that position to help those in need. This information is from the point of a family member, who had to step in and learn about medications, therapies, and making sure people were doing their jobs. Your family member is precious and should be treated as such.

The companion to Laurenhue's Alzheimer's Basic Caregiving: An ABC Guide, this audiobook covers the daily issues of dressing, bathing, grooming, continence care, nutrition, and hydration. Like its companion volume, it is highly practical and surprisingly lighthearted. Families and professionals will find it easy to listen to and easy to put to instant use.

All over the world the aging population increases on a regular basis. The elderly accounts for the populations in the age group from 60 years and above. In most countries, these age groups are either referred to as dependents, those within the retirement age or they are commonly referred to as the aged. Hence, mental health care for the elderly is a topic that needs to be taken seriously.

Filled with firsthand insights and stories from the frontlines of healthcare, as well as innovative solutions, Care After Covid shows all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem exactly what needs to change and, more importantly, how to do it.

Conscious Service: Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move Beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself will help all types of service providers understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue while discovering a renewed energy for serving others. Each of us can learn how to thrive and find fulfillment in our vocations as we make a positive difference in our homes, workplaces, and communities. Using everyday examples, personal stories, and illuminating questions, Elizabeth Bishop invites us to reimagine how we think about, train for, and embody service.

From a probability of death or life in a vegetative state after a severe traumatic brain injury, Nicole used a negative prognosis as a powerful motivator to build a successful career as a rehabilitation counsellor. She is a living testament to how the strategies outlined in this book can work for you. Has a brain injury thrown your life into a cycle of chaos and frustration? Are you worried about the future for yourself or someone you care about because of the impact of a brain injury?

This upbeat guide to caregiving gives information that is useful in a clear and easy to use format. Entertaining as well as informative, and told through the authors' own experiences, this audiobook details the sometimes surprising challenges of caregiving. A positive and upbeat book that takes on the hard issues of caregiving, and delivers sound advice to a generation dealing with the 'good news/bad news' conundrum that our ever increasing lifespan present to us.

Esta obra está basada en mi experiencia como cuidadora y en lo aprendido mediante talleres educativos, libros y el proceso diario con las enfermedades de mis familiares cercanos, con la finalidad de que sea de utilidad y de autoayuda para el lector cuando de repente se convierte en cuidador.

"Strength training" and "seniors" does not sound like a probable match, but in fact it is a match made in heaven. The mere thought of people who are past their physical prime pumping iron might seem vain or ludicrous, but millions of seniors are discovering the manifold benefits of strength training, and the medical community continues to produce studies showing that those who dare to incorporate strength training in their weekly routines gain all sorts of physical and emotional benefits.

Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year. Yet when writer, activist and former policy advisor Emily Kenway found herself in the painful position of caring for her mother, she discovered that provision for people in her situation was, at best, hopelessly inadequate and, at worst, completely non-existent.