Finding care for a loved one can be overwhelming. This book offers you a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to determining what option best meets your need and what to expect once you make your choice. It not only discusses assisted living, but also other care options that can help supplement care in the assisted living setting. If you're caring for a loved one you need this book!About the AuthorTammy BurnsIt is an unusual woman with an unusual passi...

Finding care for a loved one can be overwhelming. This book offers you a comprehensive, step-by-step guideto determining what option best meets your need and what to expect once you make your choice. It not onlydiscusses assisted living, but also other care options that can help supplement care in the assisted living setting. Ifyou're caring for a loved one you need this book!About the AuthorTammyBurnsIt is an unusual woman with an unusual passion for people ...

Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet SeasonAs painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them.Avoid hospitals and emergency rooms, as well as multiple relocations from home to assisted living facility to nursing home, since all can cause dramatic declines in physical and ...

In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.More and more people are dying in nursing homes and hospitals, often alone and miserable. But there is a better way. Find out about the alt...

"How to Clean Out Your Parents' Estate in 30 Days or Less" is a take-along manual packed with meticulously compiled checklists resources and information. This guide provides step-by-step instructions to clean out your parents' home at the time of their infirmity or death beginning in the attic and ending when the last item has been packed up. This indispensible resource offers you solutions and answers from an expert who has seen it all: *How to prepare when parents are still living and in...

Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts, and their feelings. The only issue that reaches the media about nursing homes is the negative and unfortunate events that sometimes occur, but there is so much more to the story.Most pe...

When retired sales executive Robert Loyst finds himself with nothing much to do, his wife suggests he apply for a position with a likely-sounding organization: Seniors Helping Seniors. There is just one job opening, as an aide to an elderly woman…and Robert is warned that it’s only available because nobody else has been able to tough it out. That’s how he meets Poppy, a woman so sharp-tongued, impatient, and intolerant, that she’s driven away aide after aide. Robert signs on anyway and to eve...

Written by a physical therapist, Wheelchair Freedom! presents a progressive home exercise program for wheelchair patients. It includes a step-by-step exercise program, tips on car transfers, wheelchair safety, accessories, and how to get through tight places. Track your progress and discover how wheelchair fitness can increase your opportunities and your potential for a healthy and happy life.The information in this work carries no promises or guarantees of success, walking ability...

For many families, a diagnosis of dementia is an ending. For Deborah Shouse, it was a beginning, My mother taught me how to celebrate and appreciate what we have right now.” Through her mother’s dementia, Deborah discovered compassion, deepening love, and increased connection with her mother and her family. Love in the Land of Dementia offers hope to family members, friends, and care partners of people who are living with memory loss. Strong, fluid organization and tender writing...

Retirement Communities: An Essential Guide To Choosing The Best Retirement Community For You or a Loved One This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Have You Heard Of Retirement Communities Chapter 2: Considerations To Make For Retirement Communities Chapter 3: Continuing Care Retirement Communities Chapter 4: Living In Style On Retirement Communities Chapter 5: Retirement Communities  The Downside Chapter 6: Layout And Design Consid...

Linda Abbit, founder of Tender Loving Eldercare and a veteran of the caregiving industry, shares her advice on taking care of an older parent or loved one and how to handle everything that goes along with this dramatic life change.Being a caregiver can be a difficult role. It requires patience, tenderness, selflessness, and hard work. Providing care for someone, whether it’s a parent, a loved one, or as a professional requires a high level of self-love and...

Knowing the immense responsibility it can become, and while the drama of such an undertaking in your life such as caring for your elderly parent(s) or other loved one(s) can seem insurmountable and complicated, this booklet of vital resources will help lighten your load.With a combined total of decades of health care experience – and experiences – we at Spirit Wine Publications™ had become increasingly concerned at the lack of information and the difficulty in locating what was ava...