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Preparing for Death: The Science of Dying C.W. Adams Death is the topic that no one wants to talk about. Yet every body dies, and we all know without a doubt that our body will surely die. Are we ready for death? Do we understand what will happen when our body dies? "Preparing for Death" provides us with the solutions for dealing with our death and the death of our loved ones. It succinctly delivers the modern research along with the ancient science of dying. These reveal the facts regarding our identity and the reasons for life and death. The mysteries of death are further unraveled as we discover where we go after death - and we gain the essential wisdom to be able to navigate the journey.
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The 36-Hour Day, fifth edition: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins Originally published in 1981, The 36-Hour Day was the first book of its kind. Thirty years later, with dozens of other books on the market, it remains the definitive guide for people caring for someone with dementia. Now in a new and updated edition, this best-selling book features thoroughly revised chapters on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of dementia, and finding appropriate living arrangements for the person who has dementia when home care is no longer an option. |
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The Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver's Helpbook: 101 Tips, How-to's & Great Ideas to Help an Impaired Parent Live 'Independently' Longer J.G. Hachigian Packed full of more than 101 practical and useful tips and how-to's - a truly helpful idea book for the caretaker of a parent or loved one impaired by Alzheimer's or dementia. The focus of the book is how to help a loved one continue to live independently as long as possible (with a physician's approval). Contains advice on how to improve your loved one's comfort, safety, and well-being; how to safeguard and organize documents and finances; information on legal concerns; checklists. Written in a lively readable style.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
ADVICE FOR CAREGIVERS COPING WITH EARLY TO MODERATE ALZHEIMER’S BEHAVIORS
1. Coping with the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s / Dementia
2. Coping with Early to Moderate Alzheimer’s Behaviors
3. How to Create a Helpful “Memory Center” for Your Loved One
4. Maximizing Safety and Security for an Impaired Parent Living Alone
5. To Do’s When You Visit a Parent Who Still Lives Independently
6. When to Take the Car Keys Away / How to Provide Alternate Transportation
7. The Role of Long-Distance Caregivers
8. Knowing When to Place Mom / Dad in a Care Facility, and How Best to Do It
9. Tips on Visiting Your Parent in a Care Facility
10. Sharing Information on Your Parent’s Condition
11. Educating Others
OTHER PRACTICAL MATTERS (LEGAL, FINANCIAL)
1. Managing Your Parent’s Bills, Taxes, Financial Records, Etc.
2. Handling Legal Issues
3. Handling the Costs of Alzheimer’s / Dementia Care
ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S
1. What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s
2. Key Facts about Alzheimer’s
3. Some Thoughts on Alzheimer’s / Dementia
APPENDIX:
CHECKLISTS
1 - Key Documents Checklist
2 - Financial Information Checklist
3 – Independent Living Aids Checklist
4 – Safety/Security To Do’s
5 – Home Safety Checklist
6 – When Visiting Parent: Checklist
7 – Doctor Visit Checklist
8 – List of Prescriptions / Medications
9 – List of Parent’s Physicians
10 – Care Facility Checklist
J.G. Hachigian is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, and in The Writer and Writer's Digest Magazines. |
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The Habit Susan Morse There is an unmistakable gleam in Ma’s eye, and her absolute composure both appalls me and rips my heart from its root. I burst into tears. The gauntlet is thrown. From the time she was conceived, Susan Morse was her mother’s “special” child. For Susan, special translated into becoming her incorrigible mother’s frazzled caretaker, a role that continued into adulthood. Now she finds herself as part of the sandwich generation, responsible for a woman whose eighty-five years have been single-mindedly devoted to identifying The Answer To Everything. And, this week’s Answer looks like it may be the real thing.
Susan’s mother is becoming a nun.
Mother Brigid is opinionated and discerning (Don’t call them trash cans. They’re scrap baskets!), feisty and dogmatic (Stop signs and No Parking zones are installed bybureaucratic pencil pushers with nothing better to do), a brilliant artist (truly, a saving grace), and predictably unpredictable, recently demonstrated by her decision to convert to Orthodox Christianity and join its holy order. Dressed in full nun regalia, she might be mistaken for a Taliban bigwig. But just as Mother Brigid makes her debut at church, a debilitating accident puts her in a rehab center hours from Susan’s home, where Susan’s already up to her neck juggling three teenagers, hot flashes, a dog, two cats, and a husband whose work pulls him away from the family for months at a time. Now Susan gets to find out if it’s less exhausting to be at her mother’s beck and call from one hundred miles away or one hundred feet. And she’s beginning to suspect that the things she always thought she knew about her mother were only the tip of a wonderfully singular iceberg.
In this fresh, funny, utterly irresistible memoir, Susan Morse offers readers a look at a mother-daughter relationship that is both universal and unique. For anyone who’s wondered how they made it through their childhood with their sanity intact, for every multitasking woman coping simultaneously with parents and children, for those of us who love our parents come hell or high water (because we just can’t help it), Susan Morse’s story is surprising, reassuring, and laugh-out-loud funny. A beguiling journey of love, forbearance, and self-discovery, The Habit introduces two unforgettable women you’ll be glad to know—from a safe distance. |
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Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat David Dosa A remarkable cat. A life-changing story. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat is the story of a doctor who, at first, doesn't always listen; of the patients he serves; of their caregivers; and, most importantly, of a cat who teaches by example, embracing moments of life that so many of us shy away from. "Oscar has much to teach us about empathy and courage. I couldn't put it down."
--Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants "This book is a must-read. Truly, this is a story that needs to be told."
--Fresh Fiction "You'll be moved."
--People "This touching and engaging book is a must-read for more than just cat lovers; anyone who enjoys a well-written and compelling story will find much to admire in its unlikely hero."
--Publishers Weekly "[The] book, both touching and humorous, isn't just about Oscar. It's about listening and letting go."
--USA Today |
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The magic mirror (Looking for the ego) Catalin Constantin Cuculas I’ve seen them from the first time since I opened my eyes. Beside them I saw a light blinding me. I think that not only the light but also the mouthes have been waiting for me to be born. They knew I would be special and that I was the chosen one, I think, since the moment they waited for me to appear to become acquainted with each other. I was just getting out of my mother’s womb, in the maternity ward. There, inside, it was silence and darkness. Outside there were the mouthes and the light, the unhappiest combination on earth. |
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Creating Moments of Joy: A Journal for Caregivers, Fourth Edition (NEW COVER) Jolene Brackey Jolene Brackey has a vision. A vision that will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease and focus more of our energy on creating moments of joy. When a person has short-term memory loss, his life is made up of moments. But if you think about it, our memory is made up of moments, too. We are not able to create a perfectly wonderful day with someone who has dementia, but it is absolutely attainable to create a perfectly wonderful moment; a moment that puts a smile on their face, a twinkle in their eye, or triggers a memory. Five minutes later, they won't remember what you did or said, but the feeling you left them with will linger. |
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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life (3rd Edition) Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins This classic family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease, related dementia, and memory loss in later life is now available in this user-friendly, oversized mass market edition. Reissue. |
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A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves Jane Gross Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet Season
As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them.
Avoid hospitals and emergency rooms, as well as multiple relocations from home to assisted living facility to nursing home, since all can cause dramatic declines in physical and cognitive well-being among the aged.
Do not accept the canard that no decent child sends a parent to a nursing home. Good nursing home care, which supports the entire family, can be vastly superior to the pretty trappings but thin staffing of assisted living or the solitude of being at home, even with round-the-clock help.
Important Facts
Every state has its own laws, eligibility standards, and licensing requirements for financial, legal, residential, and other matters that affect the elderly, including qualification for Medicare. Assume anything you understand in the state where your parents once lived no longer applies if they move.
Many doctors will not accept new Medicare patients, nor are they legally required to do so, especially significant if a parent is moving a long distance to be near family in old age.
An adult child with power of attorney can use a parent’s money for legitimate expenses and thus hasten the spend-down to Medicaid eligibility. In other words, you are doing your parent no favor—assuming he or she is likely to exhaust personal financial resources—by paying rent, stocking the refrigerator, buying clothes, or taking him or her to the hairdresser or barber.
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King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) William Shakespeare "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
 @HiLEARious What, my ungrateful girls are kicking me out? I’ll be cold and homeless. This sucketh. Very unexpected. Am I right?
Seriously. They SAID THEY LOVED ME. I really do not get it. Who lies just because they know it will win them land and power??
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