Elder Care

Long Term Care Essentials: A Practical Guide to Long-Term Care Planning, Financial Protection, and Caring for Aging Parents Are you ready to make informed, confident choices about long-term care for yourself or a loved one? Long Term Care Essentials is your comprehensive guide to navigating the complex landscape of elder care, financial planning for aging, and protecting your family’s future. Whether you’re preparing for your own long-term needs or caring for aging parents, this book offers clear, practical strategies to help you take control. What You’ll Discover Inside: Effective ...

Caring for Aging Parents: A Practical Survival Guide is your compassionate companion for navigating the overwhelming demands of caregiving. Balancing work, family, and caregiving can feel impossible, but this guide offers practical strategies to manage it all without sacrificing your own well-being. From juggling daily responsibilities to avoiding burnout, this book empowers you to care for your aging parents with confidence.

When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-prepared. Dozens of decisions will need to be made:•Can Mom live by herself safely? If not, what if she refuses to leave her home?•When do I need to take away the car keys and checkbook?•How do I deal with her obstinate refusal to take a bath or go to the doctor?•Should I correct her when she insists her long-dead sister is still alive or that Ronald Reagan is still President?•How do I handle her repetitive questions and accusations I’m stealing from her?•How do I...

I never knew there would be a time in my life where I went to bed every single night praying that my mother would just die. For three years, my mother's body was ravaged by ALS. For two of those three years, she lived with me and my family. Being a caregiver to someone you love is not for the faint of heart. The turbulence of emotion, frustration, and exhaustion are all enough to leave you regretting your choice to take care of them. A caregiver is often told they are special and wonderful for taking care of an ailing loved one and that's not a lie—they are. But there is an underside to ...

Estate planning isn’t just for the wealthy – it’s for everyone, especially family caregivers. If you’re taking care of a parent, spouse, or loved one, this guide will help you make important decisions about their future. It’s a simple, step-by-step blueprint to make sure everything is in place, reducing stress and avoiding confusion later. Inside, you’ll find: • The key documents you need for estate planning, like a will, healthcare directive, and powers of attorney. • How to make medical decisions for your loved one and plan for their care. • Easy ways to organize ...

I want to give a voice to the ones who cannot speak, be it, a baby, a child or an elderly. It takes me so long to have the courage to write a book, to have my voice heard, and eventually to self-publish it. It has been a long journey in the last 7 years and not an easy one when I took my professional work to Singapore. This book is written from the perspective of the Asian Culture in Singapore. It is not a technique or method book. It is written from a place of reflection on the process emerged from the research and from my own journey, both personally and professionally. I am grateful for ...

When Lisa Marsh reluctantly agrees to serve Thanksgiving dinner at the local community center, she’s not prepared for the chaos that ensues. Between the lively teenagers, fiercely independent veterans, eccentric seniors, and one particularly gruff homeless man named Pete, the evening spirals into a disaster. But when her best friend dares her to do more, Lisa accepts the challenge: she’s going to help Pete turn his life around—whether he likes it or not. Her plan? Simple: clean him up (starting with a shave), find him a job, and make him respectable. Pete, however, has no interest in ...

A Guide for an Emergency Room - Hospital Admission for People with Dementia Be Ready When Every Second Counts A hospital visit is stressful for anyone—but for individuals with dementia and their caregivers, it can be overwhelming, confusing, and even traumatic. A Guide for an Emergency Room - Hospital Admission for People with Dementia is your must-have companion for navigating the chaos with clarity and compassion. Whether you're a family member, caregiver, or friend, this essential guide empowers you to prepare for emergencies before they happen—so you’re never caught off guard. ...

Discover the compassionate path to understanding dementia and ensuring quality care for your loved one, even if the journey feels overwhelming and uncertain. Have you felt lost in the maze of medical terms while trying to care for a loved one with dementia? Are you wondering how to balance your well-being with the demanding caregiving duties, while feeling isolated and unsupported? Do you struggle to maintain effective communication and manage the emotional rollercoaster that comes with this journey? You're not alone. Many caregivers face similar challenges, but there is hope. Welcome to ...

"Senior Security 101: A Step-by-Step Guide for Prepared Elderly Couples" is an essential resource for seniors looking to protect their homes and plan for emergencies. With easy-to-follow instructions and practical tips, this comprehensive guide empowers elderly couples to create a safe and secure living environment. From home security systems to emergency preparedness, this book covers all aspects of senior security, ensuring peace of mind for both individuals and their loved ones.

Good health care is care that helps you achieve your health goals. However, most of us haven't thought very much about our goals or how to achieve them, and the health care system is too often focused on problem-solving rather than on helping you achieve your personal health goals. In this book, the author, an experienced primary care physician and teacher provides real life examples and practical advice that will help you live a long and rewarding life, maximize your ability to enjoy essential and meaningful activities, increase your ability to face health challenges, and make end-of-life ...

Many of us caregivers face uncertain future, while caring and providing for our elderly loved ones. Being responsible for the needs and care of an elderly loved one can be a difficult role that many of us do willingly, but it requires a lot of patience, time, energy, tenderness, and hard work. We often need to make decisions which are life-altering for our loved ones and for our own selves and, at times, are not pleasant or easy.

More than 10 million Millennials are caring for aging parents before they've been able to fully launch their own careers and consider starting their own families, and that's not including the incalculable numbers of people affected by long COVID. Yet no one is naming this problem, talking about how it feels, or offering resources to ease the pressure of Millennial caregiver burnout. Jennifer N. Levin was 32 when her father was diagnosed with a rare degenerative illness. As she struggled with few resources and little support, she created Caregiver Collective, a national online support group.

Whether you're currently caring for someone, or you are expecting to in the future, Next of Kin is the practical, compassionate resource you need. This essential guide will show you how to move forward with kindness and strength–for others and yourself–and will inspire you to step up to the plate when someone you love needs you.

Views on the roles of deacons vary widely among evangelical Christians. What does scripture actually teach about deacons and their role in the church? Views range from deacons being the board of directors to the church-building maintenance crew. Strauch states that his purpose in writing this book is to encourage my deacon friends and fellow church leaders to think more critically about what they are saying, what they are doing, and what scripture actually teaches about deacons.

In these pages are three years of faithful letter writing from a son to his father with dementia. The first three chapters convey the lessons learned in writing letters. These address the mechanics, theory, and art of letter writing learned over this three-year journey. I started writing Dad out of love and frustration. I was frustrated he was three thousand miles away and there was nothing I could do. About eight years earlier, I started including dementia as an area of professional study. This study led me to offer Continuing Education Units to Elder Care Administrators throughout ...

Jason Brazel is an out-of-work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone and everything that’s going on in this corner of the Lakes. So when it’s discovered that Madeline Forbisher, one of Amita’s fellow regulars at the bingo club has died, found by the postman outside her crumbling country home close to Ullswater Lake, she senses immediately this is no accident. The trouble is, no one else seems to take her suspicions seriously. That is, until she enlists the help of her friends at the Penrith Bingo Club.

Finally! A book on ChatGPT for regular folks! Humanity has created a new tool on the scale of the internet and Google, and it's called ChatGPT. And now, with this ChatGPT for beginners book anyone can learn to wield the power of artificial intelligence. This ChatGPT book puts the power of supercomputing into the hands of regular folks like you and me.ChatGPT generates human-like text and answers questions on a wide range of topics. With this guide, you'll learn how to harness its power to improve your writing, learning, planning, research, communication, entertainment, and even your health....

Caregiving for those who suffer from Parkinson's disease comes with many challenges, from how to deal with guilt and loneliness to avoiding burnout and figuring out what to expect from an unpredictable disease. When giving care, too often caregivers neglect their own well-being. Everything You Need to Know About Caregiving for Parkinson's Disease is not just about caring for your loved one, but also about taking care of yourself.

Taking on the role of carer for someone with dementia can seem really daunting at first, but it will become much easier once you know what to expect and how to manage the process. The more prepared and equipped you are, the better for you as the carer and the person with dementia. Learn how important it is to develop routines and what to expect as dementia progresses. Discover how to manage daily care and other ways to prepare the person's home so they are safe and secure. Also, it will show how to tackle the tough topics, including when to decide they need more intensive care in a facility...