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Book Synopsis The Journey of an Elder by : Valerie Boone
Download or read book The Journey of an Elder written by Valerie Boone and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - If you would like to understand your family tree, you must read this book. - You must look back so you can move forward. - When you know you are the one to do something different in your family, this book is for you. Elder Valerie Boone
Book Synopsis Elder Care Journey by : Laura Katz Olson
Download or read book Elder Care Journey written by Laura Katz Olson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother. 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. A healthy, Senior Olympics medal winner, Olsons mother is slowly and steadily incapacitated by Parkinsons disease and a gradual loss of vision. Thrust into a long-distance caregiving role, Olson finds her previous academic notions about assisting a frail parent increasingly at odds with the reality of the lived experience. In a narrative full of ah-ha! moments, tears, sighs, and outrage that will be familiar to many, Olson opens a window into the nursing home and home care industries that consume much in the way of taxpayer dollars, but often fail to deliver quality care. Olsons personal story vividly demonstrates not only the overwhelming bureaucratic barriers faced by care-dependent seniors but also their beleaguered adult childrens attempts to ensure their parents health, safety, and well-being. After losing two siblings, Laura Katz Olson is left singularly responsible for her physically active and lively mother, Dorothy, a thousand miles away, both young at heart and eagerly bicycling everywhere, but increasingly limited by the normal process of aging. Being an expert on aging and health care, Olson is at first confident as she tries to let her mother age in place. More than anyone, she believes, she should know what to do. Shuttling between Florida and Pennsylvania, Olson settles into a crushing routine, and with each visit she finds incremental downward change in her mothers health. Pulled by daughterly guilt at times, but also a wellspring of love, Olson is frank about the resentment she sometimes experiences. With a unique perspective that links the systemic flaws in our policy approach to elder care to real-world experience, Olson exposes the challenges we all face or are likely to face. More than a personal story, but nevertheless an extremely compelling one, the book should be read by those confounded and frustrated, and by those without direct knowledge of what quietly repeats itself millions of times a day. Miriam Laugesen, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University In Elder Care Journey, Laura Olson tells the riveting story of helping her aging, disabled mother navigate the system of long-term services and supports. A renowned scholar of aging and long-term care policy, Dr. Olson was nevertheless unprepared for the daily frustrations involved in confronting a bewildering array of obstacles, deceptions, burdensome and repetitive procedures and paperwork, and catch-22s, ranging from the annoying to the downright dangerous. She shows how well-intentioned policies can fall far short of meeting peoples needs, especially for those in greatest need, in a system based on fragmented interests and private-sector profit maximization. Combining scholarly expertise with personal experience, she ends the book with a detailed but highly accessible analysis of the long-term care system and how it could be improved to the benefit of both taxpayers and beneficiaries. This book is a compelling read for policymakers and for students and scholars of health care and social welfare policy, highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate courses. The authors experiences also provide helpful advice to caregivers on what to expect and how to deal with it, as well as reassurance that they are not alone. Christine L. Day, University of New Orleans If a society is judged by how well it treats its most vulnerable members, Laura Katz Olson, a prominent health policy scholar, demonstrates that we have a long way to go in how we serve frail and disabled elders in need of long-term services and supports at the end of their lives. Olson develops a compelling narrative that describes the subtle and not-so-subtle indignities imposed on elders and their caregivers navigating the complex maze of health and social service systems at their hour of greatest need. Even an expert such as Olson struggled in light of the challenges posed by these impediments. By connecting her own personal journey to the larger societal challenges within which her struggles are embedded, Olson makes a significant contribution to the literature that should be required reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers looking to advance the welfare of the nations most vulnerable citizens. Edward Alan Miller, author of Block Granting Medicaid: A Model for 21st Century Medicaid Reform? This page-turner is at once a tender tale of a daughters devotion and a stinging indictment of the hugely complex and wholly inadequate American long-term care system. That an elder-care expert can barely navigate the Byzantine web of public and private insurance and services for her disabled mother is alarming enough. Truly horrific are the systems shortcomings and the increasing role that for-profit providers play, fleecing and even abusing their customers. A startling wake-up call. Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in Americas Safety Net: One Familys Struggle
Book Synopsis The Heart of an Elder by : Stephen Parker
Download or read book The Heart of an Elder written by Stephen Parker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an elder, or considering serving as an Elder in your church? The Heart of an Elder invites you on a two-week journey to explore what the scriptures have to say about a crucial role. This practical book will help you discern whether, and know how, to serve in healthy, biblical and sustainable ways.
Book Synopsis Aging as a Spiritual Journey by : Eugene C. Bianchi
Download or read book Aging as a Spiritual Journey written by Eugene C. Bianchi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bianchi's wide-ranging book draws together insights from the social sciences, the humanities, and religion to establish a holistic framework for a spirituality of aging. He argues that middle life and late adulthood present opportunities for turning inward for a deeper contemplative life within the context of active, worldly endeavors. This can also augur a reform of social relationships--beyond individual development alone--toward the creation of a more cooperative, just society. In this way, physical decline is countered by a spiritual ascent. He summons aging persons, fortified with universal values and concerns gained from age and experience, to return to the centers of decision making. Throughout, the author ponders such questions as personal power, identity, fear, freedom, contemplation, sexuality, the church, faith, suffering, and hope. In candid interviews, older religious leaders reflect on their early value formation, personal traumas, choice of careers, midlife transitions, experiences of old age, and the prospect of death. In dwelling mainly on human spiritual dilemmas of the aging cycle, Bianchi offers a strong, clear message of hope--one that stands against the tide of our culture which tends to shunt older people to the outer eddies of life's stream. Aging as a Spiritual Journey is immensely valuable to all laypersons and those in the helping professions who are concerned about the quality of the aging process.
Book Synopsis The Wolf at Twighlight by : Kent Nerburn
Download or read book The Wolf at Twighlight written by Kent Nerburn and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated N...
Book Synopsis Journey Into Elder Space by : Mary Logan Sweet
Download or read book Journey Into Elder Space written by Mary Logan Sweet and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ElderGarten written by Sally Z. Hare and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ElderGarten: A Field Guide for the Journey of a Lifetime is author Sally Z. Hare's invitation to you to join her in becoming what the planet most needs now: Elders. There are more old people than ever on the planet - but fewer Elders, and there has never been a time that wisdom and leadership and integrity are more needed. This non-linear journey of a lifetime begins early in life - and invites us into becoming fully who we are and to use our gifts in service of the planet. Elder is not about age, but about the time of Life when one's hidden wholeness becomes visible. Elder means to live with integrity, undivided between the inner Self and the outer world: soul and role are connected in a seamless flow. The journey requires resilience and commitment - and Sally shares the practice she has discovered to build that strength. Sally envisions The ElderGarten as the field for learning to be an Elder. She knows that books are the thin places that invite her into the space between the real and the imaginal, so why not a field guide that shows the way to The ElderGarten?
Download or read book A Lot Like Me written by Larry Elder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I hated my father—really, really hated him. I hated working for him and I hated being around him. I hated it when he walked through the front door at home. And we feared him from the moment he pulled up in front of the house in his car.” So writes conservative firebrand and popular radio host Larry Elder. For ten years Elder and his father did not talk to each other. When they finally did, the conversation went on for eight hours—eight hours that took Elder on his father’s journey from the Jim Crow South, to service in the Marine Corps, to starting a business in Southern California. Elder emerged not just reconciled with his dad, but admiring him, and realizing that he had never fully known him or understood him. Heartfelt, beautifully written, compulsively readable, A Lot Like Me—originally published as Dear Father, Dear Son—is both a powerfully affecting memoir and a personal, provocative slice of American history.
Book Synopsis The Biblical Elder by : Stephen Harrison
Download or read book The Biblical Elder written by Stephen Harrison and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plurality of biblical eldership in the local church is missing in many churches today. Biblical eldership is necessary for carrying out Jesus' Gospel and discipling mandate. A church without an intentional and consistent leadership pipeline only has a leadership pipedream. This twelve-lesson workbook was designed to help churches and existing elders identify, train, and ordain potential elders through a one-on-one discipling relationship between an existing elder and a potential elder. This workbook can also be used to help elder-less churches transition to being elder-led churches. Discover the biblical mandate, qualifications, and responsibilities for the office of elders in the local church. Learn how elders shepherd, oversee, teach the Word, model Christlike character, and much more.
Book Synopsis Living on the Edge by : Richard A. Settersten
Download or read book Living on the Edge written by Richard A. Settersten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gender roles, and new economic opportunities all point to a decisive turning point. But these were not the only changes that shaped our world, and in Living on the Edge, we learn that rapid social change and uncertainty also defined the lives of Americans born at the turn of the twentieth century. The changes they cultivated and witnessed affect our world as we understand it today. Drawing from the iconic longitudinal Berkeley Guidance Study, Living on the Edge reveals the hopes, struggles, and daily lives of the 1900 generation. Most surprising is how relevant and relatable the lives and experiences of this generation are today, despite the gap of a century. From the reorganization of marriage and family roles and relationships to strategies for adapting to a dramatically changing economy, the challenges faced by this earlier generation echo our own time. Living on the Edge offers an intimate glimpse into not just the history of our country, but the feelings, dreams, and fears of a generation remarkably kindred to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Road Called Life by : Vaughn Morton
Download or read book The Road Called Life written by Vaughn Morton and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book are lessons I have learned in life. It is not about the doctrine of Acts 2:38, the oneness of God, holiness within, holiness with-out and separation from the world. Although, these things are absolutely essential to be saved, we still have to cope with life. The purpose of this book is to help Apostolic saints deal with everyday living.
Book Synopsis Eight Dreams of an Elder by : Rudy Marcus
Download or read book Eight Dreams of an Elder written by Rudy Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of a remarkable man's life through his dreams.
Book Synopsis Elder Care Journey by : Laura Katz Olson
Download or read book Elder Care Journey written by Laura Katz Olson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Gold Medal, 2017 Living Now Book Award in the Caregiving category Shortlisted for the 2016 Sarton Women's Book Awards in the Memoir category presented by the Story Circle Network 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. A healthy, Senior Olympics medal winner, Olson's mother is slowly and steadily incapacitated by Parkinson's disease and a gradual loss of vision. Thrust into a long-distance caregiving role, Olson finds her previous academic notions about assisting a frail parent increasingly at odds with the reality of the lived experience. In a narrative full of "ah-ha!" moments, tears, sighs, and outrage that will be familiar to many, Olson opens a window into the nursing home and home care industries that consume much in the way of taxpayer dollars, but often fail to deliver quality care. Olson's personal story vividly demonstrates not only the overwhelming bureaucratic barriers faced by care-dependent seniors but also their beleaguered adult children's attempts to ensure their parents' health, safety, and well-being.
Book Synopsis What God Says About Sex by : Eric Elder
Download or read book What God Says About Sex written by Eric Elder and published by Eric Elder Ministries. This book was released on 2006-07-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book to help you discover and put into practice what God says about sex. One reader writes: "Although this is a short work, it speaks volumes." A mother writes: "After only a few pages, I knew I could trust this book in the hands of my daughters." A father writes: "It's the kind of book I could read to my son and not be ashamed." A great book on a compelling topic for people of all ages.
Download or read book A Heart of Wisdom written by Susan Berrin and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all are growing older. A Heart of Wisdom shows us how to understand and meet the challenges of our own process of aging?and the aging of those we care about?from a Jewish perspective, from midlife through the elder years. How does Jewish tradition influence our own aging? What are the tasks and the meaning of aging? How does being Jewish inform our relationships with the elderly? How does living, thinking and worshipping as a Jew affect us as we age? How can Jewish tradition help us retain our dignity as we age? Over 40 contributors?people who themselves are dealing with the unique life passages that aging brings; their loved ones; and the rabbis, social workers, and other professionals who assist them?offer their insights about the changes and new perspectives that come with aging, retiring, growing, learning, caring for elderly parents, living, and dying. By sharing experiences in direct and personal narratives, poems, ceremonies, and stories, they help us explore: ? What traditional religious texts have to teach us about aging. ? Ways to cherish the integrity of the aging process. ? Women's unique roles as they age in our changing society. ? Advice for all generations on how to meet the opportunities and difficulties of aging. ? Creative ceremonies to mark milestones in our lives and in the lives of senior citizens. Offering enlightenment from Jewish tradition, A Heart of Wisdom is not just for the middle-aged, the old or the soon-to-be old. It is for all of us.
Book Synopsis Being an Elder : Becoming a Treasure by : Karen Lund
Download or read book Being an Elder : Becoming a Treasure written by Karen Lund and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Being an Elder " is for anyone who has wisdom to share or who wants to help their Elders share more. Reading this book is very similar to being an Elder. The process is learn, reflect, change, and share. Journaling with reflective questions is one of the simple ways to capture treasures found along life’s journey. Take advantage of the activities in the book to apply the insights and lessons to your life. "Being an Elder" entertains with stories from Karen Lund’s life and world travels. Then it provides activities for fusing insights into actions. Follow Karen Lund, on the journey of Being an Elder to discover yourself and your unique contribution to family, community, and the world. Karen Lund, is not only an author she is also a global business consultant, an Elder, a jet setter, a story teller, a physical education teacher, and was a Red Cross staffer during Vietnam. She fused her 50 years of listening, talking, observing and analyzing organizations, communities and individuals into the many insights in "Being an Elder."
Download or read book Wisdom at Work written by Chip Conley and published by Currency. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience is making a comeback. Learn how to repurpose your wisdom. At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking him to help grow their disruptive start-up into a global hospitality giant. He had the industry experience, but Conley was lacking in the digital fluency of his 20-something colleagues. He didn't write code, or have an Uber or Lyft app on his phone, was twice the age of the average Airbnb employee, and would be reporting to a CEO young enough to be his son. Conley quickly discovered that while he'd been hired as a teacher and mentor, he was also in many ways a student and intern. What emerged is the secret to thriving as a mid-life worker: learning to marry wisdom and experience with curiosity, a beginner's mind, and a willingness to evolve, all hallmarks of the "Modern Elder." In a world that venerates the new, bright, and shiny, many of us are left feeling invisible, undervalued, and threatened by the "digital natives" nipping at our heels. But Conley argues that experience is on the brink of a comeback. Because at a time when power is shifting younger, companies are finally waking up to the value of the humility, emotional intelligence, and wisdom that come with age. And while digital skills might have only the shelf life of the latest fad or gadget, the human skills that mid-career workers possess--like good judgment, specialized knowledge, and the ability to collaborate and coach - never expire. Part manifesto and part playbook, Wisdom@Work ignites an urgent conversation about ageism in the workplace, calling on us to treat age as we would other type of diversity. In the process, Conley liberates the term "elder" from the stigma of "elderly," and inspires us to embrace wisdom as a path to growing whole, not old. Whether you've been forced to make a mid-career change, are choosing to work past retirement age, or are struggling to keep up with the millennials rising up the ranks, Wisdom@Work will help you write your next chapter.