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Eldercare Audiobooks

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    Strength and Courage for Caregivers

    30 Hope-Filled Morning and Evening Reflections

    by Terry Hargrave ...
    Narrated by S. Rogers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    Support, respite, and encouragement for those who care for othersTaking care of a family member who is ill, disabled, or dying requires courage, strength, commitment, and love. Now Terry Hargrave, an expert in counseling and caregiving, offers you help with a devotional written with your specific needs in mind. The morning prayers and evening reflections in this book are short and to the point. ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Neglected No More

    The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic

    by Andre Picard ...
    Narrated by Miles Meili ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYIt took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation's long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Senior Care by Design

    The Better Alternative to Institutional Assisted Living and Memory Care

    by Christian Potra, Michael Hearl, Stephen Morris ...
    Narrated by Larry Williams ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    Today there are 77 million Baby Boomers living in the U.S., meaning, 10,000 people will be turning 65 years old every day. Currently, most Boomers aren’t in assisted living … yet. However, they will be moving into senior housing in droves over the next couple of decades. Add to this the increasing numbers of Boomer’s parents already making this transition.With limited resources available at this ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed

    A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents and Grandparents

    by Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    As your self-absorbed parent grows older and becomes more dependent on you, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. You will learn practical, powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that your ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Value of Wrinkles, The

    A Young Perspective on How Loving the Old Will Change Your Life

    by Isabel Tom ...
    Narrated by Michele Venlee ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    That Wasn't A White Hair, Was It?We’re so afraid of aging that we begin to devalue ourselves and others with each passing year. The phrase "30 years old" incites panic. Seniors live in separate communities and barely interact with young people, while middle-aged people spend millions each year on anti-aging products.But what if we have it all wrong? Isabel Tom grew up living with grandparents and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Creative Care

    A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care

    by Anne Basting ...
    Narrated by Anne Basting ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as she introduces a proven method that uses the creative arts to bring light and joy to the lives of elders.In Creative Care, Anne Basting lays the groundwork for a widespread transformation in our approach to elder care and uses compelling, touching ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I'll Have Some of Yours

    What my mother taught me about dementia, cookies, music, the outside, and her life inside a care home.

    by Annette Januzzi Wick ...
    Narrated by Annette Januzzi Wick ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Annette Januzzi Wick wants to find the perfect care home for her proud, Italian mother, who is slipping further into dementia.In this memoir, she shares gripping truths about mistakes she makes before ultimately finding a place where her mother develops a crush, heckles an Elvis impersonator, and magically bonds with her daughter through Frank Sinatra’s songs. Whether she is breaking up a fight ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Introduction to the Psychology of Ageing for Non-Specialists

    by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    The complete primer for non-specialists on the psychology of ageing.Whether you provide care for older people, or you are simply interested in ageing, this complete primer on the psychology of ageing explains the key issues clearly and concisely. Beginning with explanations of ageing, life expectancy and demographics, it goes on to discuss the aspects of ageing that have the most impact on people ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    El club de lectura del final de tu vida (The End of Your Life Book Club)

    by Will Schwalbe ...
    Narrated by Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    ¿Qué estás leyendo? Ésa es la pregunta que le plantea Will Schwalbe a su madre, Mary Ann, mientras están sentados en la sala de espera del centro de atención a pacientes de cáncer del hospital Memorial Sloan-Kettering. En 2007, Mary Ann regresó de un viaje de ayuda humanitaria a Pakistán y Afganistán aquejada de lo que los médicos creyeron que era una clase de hepatitis muy poco común. Meses ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Loving Approach To Dementia Care, 2nd Edition

    Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease Or Other Dementia or Memory Loss

    by Laura Wayman ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...
    series 36-Hour Day

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however-and that is where A Loving Approach to Dementia Care can help. The book offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming caregiving obstacles and maintaining meaningful relationships with loved ones who have dementia ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Love and Forgetting

    A Husband and Wife’s Journey through Dementia

    by Julie Macfie Sobol, Ken Sobol ...
    Narrated by Cookie Roscoe Handford ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    Freedom 55? The so-called “Golden Years”? What if you are slowly losing your memories and your motor skills? Or what if you are the devastated witness as your partner struggles with dementia? Lewy Body Disease is a form of dementia second only to Alzheimer’s in numbers, yet many doctors and almost no lay people have ever heard its name. This is the story of two courageous people, Julie and Ken ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Make it Safe!

    A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home

    by Rae A. Stonehouse ...
    Narrated by Mike AI from Google ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 39 min

    It is often said "it takes a village to raise a child."The same can be said about helping an elder age at home.Perhaps not a village, but certainly a family.Caregiving at home has proven its value in offsetting the high costs of in-facility healthcare, and at the same time, improving the quality of life for many elders. However, educational training and support for caregivers has been in short ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Gift of Caring

    Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare

    by Marcy Cottrell Houle, MS, Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH ...
    Narrated by Randye Kaye ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    In this book, author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's disease, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory-watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Happily Ever Older

    Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care

    by Moira Welsh ...
    Narrated by Moira Welsh ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability.Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old?

    Plan Now to Safeguard Your Health and Happiness in Old Age

    by Joy Loverde ...
    Narrated by Jean Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    Everything you need to know to plan for your own safe, financially secure, healthy, and happy old ageFor those who have no support system in place, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or not, growing old does not have to be an inevitable decline into helplessness. It is possible to maintain a ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years

    Critical Information to Maximize Their Independence and Make Sure They Get the Care They Need

    by Star Bradbury ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 22 min

    Millions of Americans are in an active caregiver role or will be in one in the future, yet few have a solid plan for the inevitable challenges of aging. Whether your parents are in their sixties or their nineties, and whether they have years of health ahead of them or already need more support, Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years provides the framework and information you need to ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    We Need to Talk About Mum & Dad

    A practical guide to parenting our ageing parents

    by Jean Kittson ...
    Narrated by Jean Kittson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    Everything you need to know about supporting ageing parents, from author and comedian Jean Kittson.This warm and witty practical guide is a one-stop shop for information on how to support your ageing loved ones: how to protect their health and wellbeing, keep them safe and secure, and enable them to be self-determining and independent for as long as possible.Full of expert advice and first-hand ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Aging with Agency

    Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare

    by Sandi Peters ...
    Narrated by Diana Gardiner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    An experiential guide to re-orienting our understanding of late adulthood as one of life's most meaningful and transformative stagesAging can bring new fears, challenges, and concerns. Loss of career, loved ones, or changing physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and scared. Sandi Peters shows us that growing older need not mean the end of personal growth. In fact, late ... Read more

    $61.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    WHEN I MARRIED MY MOTHER

    A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters - and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

    by Jo Maeder ...
    Narrated by Jo Maeder ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    "This book is important to every mother and daughter, and to every woman who wants to be one." MAYA ANGELOUA city-loving, single New York DJ braces for disaster when she reluctantly moves to the Bible Belt to care for her estranged, doll-obsessed, hoarder mother. What unfolds in this bestselling memoir is a hilarious, heartbreaking love story that sees eldercare and making peace with the past in a ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Age in Place

    A Guide to Modifying, Organizing, and Decluttering Mom and Dad’s Home; Keep Them Safe, Keep You Safe

    by Lynda G. Shrager ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 52 min

    Filled with clear and practical solutions, this step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple home modifications helps seniors make their homes safer and easier to navigate.Lynda Shrager is a registered board-certified occupational therapist, a master’s-level social worker, and a certified aging-in-place specialist (CAPS) with more than thirty-seven years’ experience in the field of geriatrics and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Self-Care for Caregivers

    A Practical Guide to Caring for You While You Care for Your Loved One

    by Susanne White ...
    Narrated by Jackie Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    Take care of yourself as you care for others with this accessible, easy-to-follow self-care guide to relax and rejuvenate.It’s been said that there are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will become caregivers, and those who will need caregivers. Chances are you or someone you know is taking care of a loved one at ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Eightysomethings

    A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness

    by Katharine Esty, PhD ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years.Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Downsizing The Family Home

    What to Save, What to Let Go

    by Marni Jameson ...
    Narrated by Joyce Bean, Fred Stella ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 22 min

    It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Here, nationally syndicated home columnist Marni Jameson sensitively guides readers through the process, from opening that first closet, to sorting through a lifetime's worth of possessions, to selling the homestead itself. Using her own personal journey as a basis, ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Staying Alive

    by Dr. Kate Gregorevic ...
    Narrated by Louise Crawford ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    Discover how to thrive and live better for longer.By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance?In Staying Alive you'll discover the science on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial