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The Caregiver's Companion: Caring for Your Loved One Medically, Financially and Emotionally While Caring for Yourself

Carolyn A. Brent MBA - Harlequin
Format: Print book

Everything you need to know to ensure that your elderly loved one is being properly cared for. People today are not only living longer, they are also living sicker - making aging and caring for elderly loved ones more complicated than ever before. In this extensive guide, caregiver advocate...
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The Caregiver's Toolbox: Checklists, Forms, Resources, Mobile Apps, and Straight Talk to Help You Provide Compassionate Care

Carolyn P. Hartley - Taylor Trade Publishing; First edition
Format: Book

Millions of Americans are or will be amateur caregivers for ill spouses, parents, or friends. Caregivers today, more than ever, use technology to help manage schedules, medication routines and pharmacy reminders, legal and financial affairs, as well as travel and expenses. Yet recent insurance...
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Cruising through Caregiving: Reducing the Stress of Caring for Your Loved One

Jennifer L. FitzPatrick - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Print book

Caregiving is no vacation, but you can cruise more smoothly through it! If you're facing the daunting reality that you're about to become a caregiver--whether you planned for it or not--Cruising through Caregiving is the down-to-earth and authoritative answer you need. Jennifer...
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The Family Caregiver's Manual: A Practical Planning Guide to Managing the Care of Your Loved One

David J Levy - Central Recovery Pr
Format: Print book

Family caregiving expert David Levy sets forth how to evaluate priorities, understand options, and face bedrock issues (legal, financial, emotional, social) , so caregivers can make wise and informed decisions for their loved ones, while gaining peace of mind from knowing they did the best...
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Juggling Life, Work, and Caregiving

Amy Goyer - American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division
Format: Print book

A staggering 42 million Americans -- one in four adults -- face the challenges of caring for an adult friend or relative. Although caregiving can be a richly rewarding and joyful experience, the role comes with enormous responsibilities -- and pressures. AARP's gentle guide provides...
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Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO; Tenth edition
Format: Paperback

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. Whether you're planning for the future or need to make a quick decision, Long-Term Care helps you understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to find the best care...
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The Caregivers: A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love

Nell Lake - Thorndike Press; 1 Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

In 2010, journalist Nell Lake sat in on the weekly meetings of a local hospital?s caregivers support group. Soon members invited her into their lives. For two years, she witnessed acts of devotion and frustration, lessons in patience and in letting go. Lake?s work considers important social...
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The Good Caregiver: A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One

Robert L. Kane Dr. - Avery
Format: Paperback

A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones. As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their...
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You'd Better Not Die or I'll Kill You: A Caregiver's Survival Guide to Keeping You in Good Health and Good Spirits

Jane Heller - Chronicle Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Bestselling writer Jane Heller thought she'd found her dream man—until he turned out to be a "frequent flier," the term doctors and nurses use to refer to patients who land in the E.R. more often than the average person goes to Starbucks. Here, Jane shares her experiences...
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The Caregiver's Path To Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can't

Viki Kind - Greenleaf Book Group; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2011 Caregiver Friendly Award --Today's Caregiver magazine Wouldn't it be a relief to know you are making the right decisions and doing right by the person in your care? Whether you have a loved one who can't make his or her own decisions or you are a healthcare...
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Caregiver's handbook

Joanna Edwards

The Caregiver's HandbookThe Caregiver's HandbookThe Caregiver's Handbook is a comprehensive, compassionate, and indispensable resource that all caregivers will want to have on hand at all times - it is essential reading for anyone caring for someone at home.
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Life after the Diagnosis: Expert Advice on Living Well with Serious Illness for Patients and Caregivers

Steven Pantilat - Da Capo
Format: Print book

How to think and talk about serious illness, presented by a medical expert in the most caring, sensitive, and nonthreatening way.
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AARP Meditations for Caregivers: Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Support for You and Your Family

Barry J Jacobs - Da Capo
Format: Print book

Family caregiving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues. But caregivers also grow personally and spiritually by ensuring the well-being of a loved one. In AARP Meditations for Caregivers, clinical...
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Elder care journey : a view from the front lines

Laura Katz Olson - Excelsior Editions
Format: Print book

For millions of Americans caregiving is the new normal. For Laura Katz Olson, a respected researcher of long-term care for the aging, "Elder Care Journey" chronicles the disruption of her world and how it is upended by the ever-increasing long-distance needs of her own mother....
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The Caregiving Trap: Solutions for Life's Unexpected Changes

Pamela D Wilson - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Print book

The Caregiving Trap combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care.
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The Caregiving Season: Finding Grace to Honor Your Aging Parents

Jane Daly - Focus On The Family Pub
Format: Print book

Caring for elderly parents is challenging. It's a season of life that requires grace and strength that can only come from God. In The Caregiving Season, Jane Daly shares personal caregiving stories, offering practical advice to help you honor your aging parents well and deepen your...
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir

Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three...
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Losing Susan: Brain Disease, the Priest's Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away

Victor Lee Austin - Brazos Press
Format: Print book

The Story of Brain Disease and the Priest's WifeThis is the story of Susan--a wife, mother, Christian believer, lover of children, writer of stories, and woman of extraordinary intellect. Susan was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her late thirties. Although it was successfully treated,...
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ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers: A Guide to Making it Manageable

Sally Balch Hurme - American Bar Association
Format: Print book

Caregiving is inevitably fraught with complex issues - emotional as well as medical, financial, and legal. The ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers by Sally Balch Hurme can help organize the responsibilities that caregivers face. In one place, you'll be able to record and update...
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The Eldercare Consultant: Your Guide to Making the Best Choices Possible

Becky Feola - AMACOM; 1 edition
Format: eBook

Your elderly father's memory is failing fast. Your increasingly frail mother just took another fall. Whatever the situation, The Eldercare Consultant can provide the knowledge, support, and encouragement you seek. Weaving together real-life stories with the essential information needed...
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