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A Caregiver's Story

Author : Ann Brandt
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595448836
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book A Caregiver's Story written by Ann Brandt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One caregiver's chronicles of the journey she took with her husband, as they battled his brain tumor. Beautifully written."-Naomi Berkowitz, Executive Director, American Brain Tumor Association Just one year after battling a little-known illness called Guillain Barre, Ann Brandt faced another challenge when her husband was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating, and aggressive form of brain cancer. Lacking in resources or formal instruction, Brandt relied heavily on her faith and memories of how her husband cared for her during her illness to navigate them both through the difficult times ahead. In A Caregiver's Story, Brandt approaches the complexities of caregiving in a personal and empowering way that offers sound spiritual as well as practical advice to make caregiving more manageable. She includes invaluable, up-to-date information about: Working with doctors and getting a second opinion Choosing a treatment plan Maintaining your life and sanity while offering good care Finding support groups and conferences Dealing with emotional and financial issues Making a connection between prayer and healing Brandt offers a loving, encouraging environment to help steer you through difficult times and delivers much-needed support and comfort. For caregivers, family members, and friends alike, A Caregiver's Story provides the support you deserve.

A Cast of Caregivers

Author : Sherri Snelling
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452559147
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book A Cast of Caregivers written by Sherri Snelling and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caregiving role will you play? How will you avoid the caregiving cost drain? Are you prepared for the end? How will you overcome stress, burn-out, depression, guilt? How will you find happiness and support? How do you start the caregiving conversation with a loved one? Are you caring for yourself while caregiving? More than 65 million Americans are caring for a loved one yet most dont know what they are facing or where to get help. Caregiving expert Sherri Snelling shines a spotlight on the world of caregiving and interviews celebrities who have taken the caregiving journey and shared their lessons learned. This how-to guide also covers caregiving topics A to Z, self-care advice and more. Inside you will find numerous expert interviews and tips on how to have the C-A-R-E Conversation and how to find your Me Time Monday. Written to inspire and empower you, this is your screenplay for health and happiness while caregiving. As Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, Toto, I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymore. Welcome to the Cast of Caregivers.

Lewy, Mom, and Me

Author : Peggy Bushy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537771021
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Lewy, Mom, and Me written by Peggy Bushy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her seventies, Peggy Bushy's mother, Francesca, started telling unbelievable stories. She claimed that people were invading her home and trying to kill her. She also became anxious and reclusive. For several discouraging years, Bushy searched in vain for a reason for her mother's behavior. Finally, Francesca was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. Although it's the third-most-common cause of dementia, Bushy was unable to find much information on the disease, and the medical community was frustratingly unhelpful. Lewy, Mom, and Me is the book that Bushy wished had been available when her mother was first diagnosed. It details her personal journey of discovery, with all its challenges and revelations, and is written in a compassionate, empathetic style that will comfort any reader dealing with a parent's decline. Bushy explains how she learned to accept the changes in her mother and to support Francesca emotionally as she grappled with her frightening illness. She also describes what was involved in caring for her mother first at home, then in long-term care, and finally in hospice. Part memoir and part survival guide, this compelling testimony offers support and information for family caregivers of aging parents.

A Loving Voice

Author : Carolyn Banks
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780816156207
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book A Loving Voice written by Carolyn Banks and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read-aloud stories for the elderly.

Stop and Smell the Garbage

Author : Christine McMahon Sutton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781477574072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Stop and Smell the Garbage written by Christine McMahon Sutton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our walking path took us past a large garbage can that sat near an apartment complex. It was a favorite stopping point for dogs and Lucy, our willful terrier, pulled me over to it. I asked, "Oh, do you want to stop and smell the garbage?" Gery didn't appear to be paying attention, but not only was he listening, he decided I was talking to him. He walked resolutely to the garbage can, removed the lid, lowered his head and took an enthusiastic whiff." At age 56, Gery Sutton - a family physician specializing in geriatric medicine - was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. For three years, his wife was his full time caregiver. Because nothing in her background prepared her, she did what most caregivers do-she made it up as she went along. This is her painfully forthright account of the daily challenges, the failures and the unexpected triumphs. She gives realistic advice on caring for someone with dementia. She describes signs of Alzheimer's that she saw and misinterpreted during the months before his diagnosis. She shares the coping mechanisms that helped her survive the illness and death of her husband. Finally, she describes her search for meaning at the bottom of a garbage can.

Memoirs of a Caregiver

Author : Cynthia Young
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475970994
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Caregiver written by Cynthia Young and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alzheimers is a memory-robbing, debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. For most families, having just one member afflicted with Alzheimers disease can be devastating. In her poignant memoir, Cynthia Young shares her story of love and devotion as she learns how to care for four family members stricken with Alzheimers disease over a ten-year period. Young narrates a journey filled with laughter, challenges, and sorrow as she commutes from California to Michigan to care for her mother, two aunts, and a cousin. She provides insight into how the disease progresses and gradually destroys the memory and abilities to learn, reason, make sound judgments, communicate, and carry out daily activities. While sharing her personal story and detailing how she overcame each obstacle along the way, Young also teaches other caregivers how to use valuable resources, navigate the court system as a guardian and conservator, handle the Alzheimers personality, and search for an assisted-living facility. Memoirs of a Caregiver shares one womans inspiring story of unconditional love and courage with the hope that it will encourage and empower other caregivers to be diligent, strong, and, most importantly, to never give up. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be directed to the Alzheimers Association.

The Other Side of Alzheimer's, a Caregiver's Story

Author : Marietta Harris
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615328202
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Alzheimer's, a Caregiver's Story written by Marietta Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you handle a crisis in your life? Alzheimer's is just one condition that requires loved ones to be caregivers. We become caregivers not by choice and once we are, we lose our choices. This is a story of a woman who faced those choices and survived. 13:978-0-615-32820-1

The Takeover

Author : Mimi Pockross
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499009798
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Takeover written by Mimi Pockross and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So how does a daughter cope with moving her elderly parents from Chicago to Denver and becoming their primary caregiver? This is a story about learning on the job to deal with constant medical and emotional crises, about deciphering the eldercare lingo, about trying to figure out how to maintain some sort of quality of life, about juggling the financial and legal problems associated with the aging process, and about the surprising joys of making life meaningful enough that when one looks back at this time, it all seems worthwhile.

The Caregivers

Author : Nell Lake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451674163
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Caregivers written by Nell Lake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers—spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill—illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy—and “providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local hospital’s caregivers support group. Soon members invited her into their lives. For two years, she brought empathy, insight, and an eye for detail to understanding Penny, a fifty-year-old botanist caring for her aging mother; Daniel, a survivor of Nazi Germany who tends his ailing wife; William, whose wife suffers from Alzheimer’s; and others with whom all caregivers will identify. Witnessing acts of devotion and frustration, lessons in patience and in letting go, Lake illuminates the intimate exchanges of caregiving and care-receiving and considers important and timely social issues: How can we care for the aging, ill, and dying with skill and compassion, even as the costs and labors of care increase? How might the medical profession take into account the needs of caregivers as well as patients? In The Caregivers Nell Lake shares a thoughtful and tenderly reported depiction of the real-life predicaments that evoke these crucial questions. With more and more people spending their late years ill and frail, and 43 million Americans already caring for family members over age fifty, this is an important chronicle of a widely shared experience and a public concern. “The Caregivers is as elegantly constructed as a novel, but more than that, Lake writes about these people with such warmth and vividness that they feel as memorable as our favorite fictional characters. It is a beautifully written account” (The Boston Globe).

The Power of Death:

Author : Nancy Solano
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483666700
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Death: written by Nancy Solano and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our parents age, our role often changes to primary caregiver. This true story reveals an account of a caregivers struggle to balance work, life, family, and friends. The narrative includes unexpected life and death decisions and describes the effect caregiving has on the people involved. This emotional journey forever changes lives.

Living Is for Living

Author : Terry Perkins Mitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Living Is for Living written by Terry Perkins Mitman and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Is for Living: a Caregiver's Story presents a real-time look at the multi-layered experience of caring for an elder with Alzheimer's disease, while also caring for a spouse, children, and a house full of pets. Addressing challenging topics like caregiver burden, end-of-life decision-making, and letting go, Terry Perkins Mitman offers humor and hope as she weaves together reflections gathered over twenty years. She shares, too, how the relationship she developed with a Higher Power in her twenties, thanks to Al-Anon and The Twelve Steps, steadied her through the various stages of her mother's care. When she first blogged many of these reflections at thejoyofcaring.com, she did not anticipate how her community of readers would fuel her in staying the course of her mother's care and the grief that followed. She offers Living Is for Living in the hope that it will somehow ease your caregiving journey, whatever its details, and, at the very least, it will help you to know you do not walk alone.

Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories

Author : Lynda A. Markut
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826514790
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories written by Lynda A. Markut and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replete with the powerful words of experienced caregivers, Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories is an essential guidebook for anyone who must attend to the needs of a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. In these pages, members of caregivers' support groups - representing twenty-six families and a variety of professions and income levels - speak candidly about the challenges they have faced at every step in the caregiving process, from recognizing early symptoms of dementia to dealing with its advanced stages. Highlighting the ingenuity and resourcefulness of caregivers, the book brims with inspirational stories, practical advice, and creative approaches to problem-solving. Among the issues addressed are: Becoming a caregiver, whether for a spouse or parent Dealing with the personality changes caused by dementia, from anxiety and paranoia to hallucinations and impulsive behavior Keeping dementia sufferers meaningfully involved in life Handling the emotions and stresses of caregiving Seeking help through support groups and other sources, including medical professionals, clergy, and other family members The authors, who have both been caregivers themselves, augment their interviewees' stories with connective commentary and their own personal stories. A useful resource section is included to refer readers to associations and help-lines.

Alzheimer's

Author : William Holland
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1639855343
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Alzheimer's written by William Holland and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

FADING AWAY WITH ALZHEIMERS

Author : Bill Gordon Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450080693
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book FADING AWAY WITH ALZHEIMERS written by Bill Gordon Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Caregiver's Story

Author : Vada Wolter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432776428
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book The Caregiver's Story written by Vada Wolter and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BY READING THE CAREGIVER'S STORY YOU WILL...* Learn about the three stages of AD *Learn how to know each stage and how to be a better caregiver * Understand that trials can make you stronger *Learn how to face challenges *Know when you can't change the circumstance...you can change your attitude.Facing many difficult challenges throughout my life, I grew stronger with each experience. Each one prepared me for my biggest challengebeing a caregiver for my Dementia Mother.This story is about a familys struggle of caring for an aging parent suffering from Dementia. My desire is that in the reading of my caregivers story you will understand my survival of personal struggles. Perhaps by reading this book you will understand my world, and it will give you encouragement to survive your own.

Caregiver

Author : Jane Sweeney
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781478726517
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Caregiver written by Jane Sweeney and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling All Caregivers... This book will help you! You are not alone! BE ALERT, BE HOPEFUL, BE READY! YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE OUTCOME! This is a love story of Jane & Bernie. Two hearts united by God. The man he was and the woman, who loved him, cared for him 'til the end. It gives insight to understanding Lewy Body Dementia & Alzheimer's, through stories of challenges & triumphs. It tells many funny stories that will warm your heart! This was a beautifully written story, both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Truly an inspirational guide to all caregivers...teaching them they are "Never Alone" and to "Always choose love and happiness over fear." This book is for all those who do not know where to turn when your loved one is starting to be a little more than forgetful. It is scary to think something may truly be wrong. Where do you start? What is to come? Everyone's experience caring for a loved one with dementia will be different, but this book offers the reader hope that love can persevere through even the most trying of circumstances, "that an individual can find within themselves a light in the darkness." Facing dementia will change you and everything around you! Facing dementia is a call to love and care more deeply! "Love it!!! Find it refreshing and not so negative, but sweet and caring. I think that you have done a wonderful thing with the book and I am so pleased that you did it...can't wait to see it in print!!!" You are not alone!

Caregiving

Author : Oliver J. Desofi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456701126
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Caregiving written by Oliver J. Desofi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the author's personal experience as a caregiver, how he became one, everything he learned along the way and what a wonderful life two people can have together regardless of the situation. The author wants to share what he learned; information from doctors, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, disability claims and a number of other important issues including positive thinking and a happy life. His real life experiences have been "battle" tested in the totality of caregiving. The information he shares relates to all caregivers and many situations; from diseases, accidental disability and war wounded veterans. He further describes how one caregiver, over a period of 24 years, was able to maneuver across the "battlefield," still survive and not succumb to battle fatigue. Someone else's knowledge about something negative can make things more positive for you...and that is an important part of what this book is about. Many books out there are a wonderful collection of data compiled from the internet and government sources and provide answers to many issues. This book covers the "must do" items which are based on his experiences that can be used as a reference guide and adapted to your individualized situation. Every patient is different and in order to earn the "Caregiver of the year" award, you must find what works best for them. The most important issue is to realize that a severely disabled person needs to be treated with respect and dignity. Unfortunately, too many handicapped patients are disposed of like a useless piece of furniture or parked out of sight at some poorly run institution. What would you want to happen to you, should you ever be disabled as a result of an accident or disease? REMEMBER - it can happen to anyone - anytime, including YOU!