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Book Synopsis Alzheimers Care-My Way by : P.C. Rice
Download or read book Alzheimers Care-My Way written by P.C. Rice and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband's caregiving experiences for his wife. His approach to care giving was unconventional. He chose to continue daily life as normal and sought logical interpretations for her irrational behaviour, entering her clouded Dementia world. Her condition declined rapidly whilst in hospital, unaided, she walked into hospital and returned wheelchair bound. In spite of his best efforts to provide her with twenty-four care, he soon conceded it was impossible to care and maintain their large home and grounds. She was doubly incontinent and rigidity had set in, thus he felt compelled to place her in a Nursing Home. In the months that followed her condition deteriorated to a degree that she became bedridden and required palliative care. His daily eight hour harrowing visits, became unbearable and against all advice he decided to take her home to die. For nine long painful months her survival prospects were rated very poor. Constantly he was warned she was dying, but he insisted on care giving in his own way.
Book Synopsis The Problem of Alzheimer's by : Jason Karlawish
Download or read book The Problem of Alzheimer's written by Jason Karlawish and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2050. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis. While it is an unambiguous account of decades of missed opportunities and our health care systems’ failures to take action, it tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow Alzheimer’s to finally be prevented and treated by medicine and also presents an argument for how we can live with dementia: the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of self, how families can support their loved ones, and the innovative reforms we can make as a society that would give caregivers and patients better quality of life. Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center.
Download or read book Gentlecare written by Moyra Jones and published by Hartley & Marks Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlecare offers a revolutionary new approach to Alzheimer's care. Author Moyra Jones' sensitive and insightful program for caring for those suffering from dementia emphasizes looking after the whole person; body, mind, and soul. She encourages healthcare providers of all kinds to move away from trying to modify behavior and to instead find ways to make the journey through Alzheimer's Disease less traumatic. Gentlecare covers every aspect of Alzheimer's caregiving from assessment to attitudes, and grooming to communication. It looks for ways to cherish the diminishing person and will be of profound interest to anyone affected by Alzheimer's disease, whether concerned professionals or family members of those afflicted.
Book Synopsis The Seasons of Alzheimer's by : Katy Ellefson
Download or read book The Seasons of Alzheimer's written by Katy Ellefson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the afternoon, we went to the Salvation Army warehouse to help wrap gifts for children in need. Mom and I enjoyed our afternoon. I put Moms hand in place to hold the paper, and I would hurry to get the tape on before she lost grip. Mom repeatedly asked, Who are the presents for? I repeatedly said, They are for children and families in need. Mom was happy all over again. On the way home, I decided to stop at the health food store. I only needed a couple of items, and there was a parking space close to the store. Mom said she was too tired to go in and wanted to wait in the car. I agreed, and it would be quicker for me to go in alone. She was buckled in her seatbelt and hadnt yet remembered how to unbuckle it. I was confident Mom would be fine. I locked her in the car and told her I would be back in five minutes. I grabbed the items I needed, peeked out the window, saw Mom in the car, and proceeded to the checkout. There was one customer ahead of me. Checkout went fast, and I rushed out to the car. Mom was gone! I panicked like never before. I wanted to scream. My mind raced. What should I do? Should I call the police? I cried, Where did Mom go?
Book Synopsis Setting a Federal Agenda for Alzheimer's Disease by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Download or read book Setting a Federal Agenda for Alzheimer's Disease written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Spiritual Dimension of Care for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia by : Eileen Shamy
Download or read book A Guide to the Spiritual Dimension of Care for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia written by Eileen Shamy and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for those actively engaged in or interested in spiritual ministry to persons with dementia. Shamy draws heavily upon her experience, making this book very personal in its approach. I appreciated this style, feeling that the anecdotes anchor the book in the realm of what can be done rather than the theoretical world of the "maybes". The main concepts of the book, those of spirituality, retained through dementia, and personal worth should be acceptable to people of most world faiths.' - Leveson Newsletter 'This is an important book that has much to offer at a variety of different levels. It ranges from deep philosophical thinking to practical recommendations... a book that should be bought, digested and used frequently.' - Christian Council on Ageing 'Contains valuable material. The passages that attempt a definition of spirituality, and the stories about persons with dementia and how they have been helped to greater well-being, are relevant and excellently done. The spirit of Eileen Shamy shines out from these pages and carries its own message of passionate concern. One of the book's greatest strengths is its stories, which are unfailingly well-told and apposite.' - Ageing and Society Drawing on her years of experience as a clergywoman working with older people in care settings, Eileen Shamy discusses how pastoral work can help to develop holistic care for those suffering from dementia and related conditions - care which involves understanding of their spiritual as well as physical needs. This sensitive and informative book provides guidelines for pastoral visits to people with dementia, showing how to empathise with, understand and support individuals during a visit. Emphasising the importance of retaining dignity and freedom of choice for people with dementia, it also presents practical advice about memory cueing and provides frameworks for leading worship for those with dementia. A useful resource for a variety of people involved in pastoral care with older people, whether professionals or volunteers, this book provides inspiration from a respected author in the field of psychogeriatric care.
Book Synopsis Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease: Your Easy -to-Use- Guide from the National Institute on Aging (Revised January 2019) by : National Institute on Aging
Download or read book Caring for a Person with Alzheimer's Disease: Your Easy -to-Use- Guide from the National Institute on Aging (Revised January 2019) written by National Institute on Aging and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide tells you how to: Understand how AD changes a person Learn how to cope with these changes Help family and friends understand AD Plan for the future Make your home safe for the person with AD Manage everyday activities like eating, bathing, dressing, and grooming Take care of yourself Get help with caregiving Find out about helpful resources, such as websites, support groups, government agencies, and adult day care programs Choose a full-time care facility for the person with AD if needed Learn about common behavior and medical problems of people with AD and some medicines that may help Cope with late-stage AD
Book Synopsis Nurses Are from Heaven by : Christina Feist-Heilmeier
Download or read book Nurses Are from Heaven written by Christina Feist-Heilmeier and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book carries a message of hope and life to nurses in a troubled and challenging profession. It is the power boost every nurse needs today. Readers experience the real reason behind the nurse's behavior: Caring. Why and how do we care? Do we care enough? How can we keep on caring? Where is the Source of Caring? Readers embark on this exciting journey through the life of the nurse: her joys, sorrows, achievements, and crosses. They visit the nurse's mysterious dimension of faith. They laugh and cry, and become inspired and refreshed. Some will be inspired to study Nursing, others will try to be better nurses, while yet others will decide to stay in Nursing even longer. There is something for everyone: a taste of what really matters in Nursing, Caring. Christina Feist-Heilmeier, RN has spent thirty years in the healthcare world, specializing in geriatric, obstetrical, and medical/surgical Nursing. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing and has two honorable discharges from military service as a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Health Service and the United States Air Force. She has worked in Nursing "from sea to shining sea," spanning from Alaska to the East Coast, to Mexico and the Caribbean, witnessing dramatic events throughout her work and travels. She now translates her career experiences into learning experiences for her students as a faculty member at the College of Southern Maryland Nursing Department and the Staff Development Coordinator at St. Mary's Nursing Center. She has recently been called to serve in a new capacity as an author, sharing her compelling thoughts in the writings contained within the covers of this book.
Book Synopsis Learning from My Daughter by : Eva Feder Kittay
Download or read book Learning from My Daughter written by Eva Feder Kittay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Our dependent, vulnerable, messy, changeable, and embodied experience colors everything about our lives both on the surface and when it comes to deeper concepts, but we tend to leave aside the body for the mind when it comes to philosophical matters. Disability offers a powerful challenge to long-held philosophical views about the nature of the good life, what provides meaning in our lives, and the centrality of reason, as well as questions of justice, dignity, and personhood. These concepts need not be distant and idealized; the answers are right before us, in the way humans interact with one another, care for one another, and need one another--whether they possess full mental capacities or have cognitive limitations. We need to revise our concepts of things like dignity and personhood in light of this important correction, Kittay argues. This is the first of two books in which Kittay will grapple with just how we need to revisit core philosophical ideas in light of disabled people's experience and way of being in the world. Kittay, an award-winning philosopher who is also the mother to a multiply-disabled daughter, interweaves the personal voice with the philosophical as a critical method of philosophical investigation. Here, she addresses why cognitive disability can reorient us to what truly matters, and questions the centrality of normalcy as part of a good life. With profound sensitivity and insight, Kittay examines other difficult topics: How can we look at the ethical questions regarding prenatal testing in light of a new appreciation of the personhood of disabled people? What do new possibilities in genetic testing imply for understanding disability, the family, and bioethics? How can we reconsider the importance of care, and how does it work best? In the process of pursuing these questions, Kittay articulates an ethic of care, which is the ethical theory most useful for claiming full rights for disabled people and providing the opportunities for everyone to live joyful and fulfilling lives. She applies the lessons of care to the controversial alteration of severely cognitively disabled children known as the Ashley Treatment, whereby a child's growth is halted with extensive estrogen treatment and related bodily interventions are justified. This book both imparts lessons that advocate on behalf of those with significant disabilities, and constructs a moral theory grounded on our ability to give, receive, and share care and love. Above all, it aims to adjust social attitudes and misconceptions about life with disability.
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Book Synopsis A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs by : Rhonda J.V. Montgomery
Download or read book A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs written by Rhonda J.V. Montgomery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore new frontiers in Alzheimer's support systems! When Congress authorized the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program in 1990, no one knew how effective the program would prove to be. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with results of the first major evaluation of ADDGS programs. Across the country, groups were able to develop specialized programs that reached traditionally underserved clients. A byproduct of many of the ADDGS programs was that they helped strengthen ties between communities and agencies, improving social services for both caregivers and people with Alzheimer's. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs examines: the profile of the average respite care user different challenges faced by urban and rural clientele how culture and ethnicity influence health care decisions ways to involve communities in respite care how understanding patterns of use makes for better program design and implementation A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with detailed analyses of a variety of successful support service plans, including mobile day care, Latino-specific outreach, traveling dementia evaluation teams, and programs designed for people who live alone. You'll also read about the importance of complementing family caregivers instead of substituting for them. Throughout, helpful tables make the results of ADDGS programs clear. It is estimated that Alzheimer's will affect up to 14 million Americans by the year 2050. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs contains vital knowledge that you can act on now to help lay the foundations for a better future.
Book Synopsis Dementia Caregiving from a Biblical Perspective by : Dorothy Gable
Download or read book Dementia Caregiving from a Biblical Perspective written by Dorothy Gable and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Grand Prize Winner CWFL (Christian Writer's for Life) Book Award What is dementia and how does it differ from Alzheimer’s? What are the signs of dementia and how will my loved one progress along the path? What changes in the brain cause the behaviors? This book is your guide for the journey. Dementia Caregiving from a Biblical Perspective: Your Guide for the Journey contains information about the four main types of dementia and is illustrated by stories. It will help prepare you for the future, recognize pitfalls, as well as highlight the joys of each stage of dementia. Drawing from a Biblical perspective, it points to God’s sustaining grace in the midst of a difficult season. One person can make a difference—the most effective care is nurturing love.
Book Synopsis The Dementia Care Workbook by : Morris, Gary
Download or read book The Dementia Care Workbook written by Morris, Gary and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dementia Care Workbook is a workbook style text on dementia, aimed at pre-registration level students training to be Mental Health or Adult nurses. By using reflective exercises and other tools, the book is designed to help readers get to grips with the key issues of dementia care, with a focus on the felt experience for all involved. Topics covered include: the felt experience (the patient), the felt experience (the carer/family), attitudes to caring, environment of care, the person, engagement, ways of working, empowerment and the future.
Book Synopsis Dementia Care Nursing by : Trevor Adams
Download or read book Dementia Care Nursing written by Trevor Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the role nurses play when working with people who have dementia and their relatives. Dementia Care Nursing is a fascinating insight into the field, which outlines approaches that may be used by nurses within practice and provides advice on how dementia care may be developed and enhanced.
Book Synopsis Remember Me, Mrs V? Caring for my : her Alzheimer's and others' stories by :
Download or read book Remember Me, Mrs V? Caring for my : her Alzheimer's and others' stories written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Harsh Realities of Alzheimer's Care by : Andrew Seth Rosenzweig MD
Download or read book The Harsh Realities of Alzheimer's Care written by Andrew Seth Rosenzweig MD and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent geriatric psychiatrist details the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of places where those with dementia are treated—from emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals to assisted living facilities and nursing homes. The Harsh Realities of Alzheimer's Care: An Insider's View of How People with Dementia Are Treated in Institutions is the first book of its kind. Written by an eminent geriatric psychiatrist who has worked with dementia patients in more than 70 facilities, the book distills all he has learned about dementia care, for better and, more often, for worse. Both a shocking exposé and a practical guide, the book takes readers into nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. It reveals the inadequacies and dangers of these institutions, detailing issues that result in poor care including federal standards for minimum staff training that are, in some cases, lower than those established for dog groomers. The author cites improvements that must be made in emergency rooms and inpatient psychiatric facilities treating victims of dementia, and he documents the downside of memory clinics. But there are steps caregivers can take to protect their loved ones—and themselves. Each chapter concludes with "reality lessons" that offer practical, affordable strategies for coping with dementia's many challenges.
