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  • Decluttering for Seniors: A Gentle Approach to Downsizing

    by Judith Clarke ...
    Decluttering for Seniors: A Gentle Approach to Downsizing is a warm and practical guide designed specifically for older adults ready to simplify their homes and lives—without the stress. Whether you're preparing for a move, aiming to reduce household overwhelm, or simply seeking more peace in your space, this book offers thoughtful, step-by-step advice tailored to the unique emotional and physical ... Read more

    PHP57.71

  • We Shall All Be Changed

    How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us

    by Whitney Pipkin ...
    TGC 2024 Book Award WinnerDeath teaches us how to live.When Whitney K. Pipkin’s mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she wasn’t ready. How could she be? She searched for resources that could help her walk through this heavy yet sacred time in her life. But she struggled to find the guidance she longed for in a season of anticipatory grief.We Shall All Be Changed is a companion for those ... Read more

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  • The Practical Caregiver's Guide to Home Hospice: How to Help Someone You Love (Second Edition)

    by Sara M. Barton ...
    Are you a caregiver for someone who needs home hospice, unsure of what your job is for your loved one at the end of life?The Practical Caregiver's Guide to Home Hospice Care will help you understand not only how to take care of your loved one, but also yourself. Make the care you provide fit the real needs of the person needing help. ... Read more

    PHP116.00

  • COVID-19, Inequality and Older People

    Everyday Life during the Pandemic

    by Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Sophie Yarker, Luciana Lang ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.It draws upon novel qualitative longitudinal research which recorded the experiences of a diverse group of people aged 50+ in Greater Manchester over a 12-month period during the pandemic. The book analyses their lived ... Read more

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  • Expertenstandards to go

    by Sabine Hindrichs, Ulrich Rommel ...
    Expertenstandards für die Kitteltasche. Immer griffbereit zum schnellen Nachschauen: Dieser handliche Kartensatz gibt Sicherheit für die tägliche Arbeit. Pro Standard finden Sie auf je zwei Seiten: - die Faktoren zur pflegerischen Einschätzung in Form von Pflegerischen Risikorädern grafisch dargestellt, - je ein Ablaufdiagramm für die praktische Umsetzung. Der Kartensatz "Expertenstandards to go" ... Read more

    PHP625.00

  • Love, Care, & Alzheimer's

    A Daughter's Memoir

    by Bing Dempewolf, Denise McGrail ...
    As the youngest daughter of Chinese immigrants, Bing Dempewolf wasn't expected to care for her parents. Traditionally, that responsibility should have fallen to her eldest brother. Yet, after her father's death, the role of caregiver landed on her shoulders with the sudden weight of a piano dropped from a ten-story building-fast-moving, heavy, and life-changing. Barely into her thirties, while ... Read more

    PHP174.29

  • Pflegerische Versorgung alter Menschen

    Qualitaet – Konzepte – Rahmenbedingungen Festschrift fuer Prof. Dr. Stefan Goerres

    by Ingrid Darmann-Finck, Heike Mertesacker ...
    Series Book 6 - Pflegeforschung
    Die Pflege hat eine zentrale Rolle in der Versorgung alter Menschen. Sie trägt dazu bei, dass alte Menschen trotz Einschränkungen, z.B. in der Selbstständigkeit, ein Leben in Würde und Selbstbestimmung führen können. Renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren konkretisieren, welches genau das Ziel der Pflege von alten Menschen sein soll und wie die Qualität in der Langzeitpflege weiterentwickelt und ... Read more

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  • The Measure of Our Age

    Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life

    by M.T. Connolly ...
    An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities.As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut across race, class, and gender. Caregivers help older relatives for “free,” but with high costs to ... Read more

    PHP908.19

  • Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care

    What You Do Matters

    by David Farrell, Cathie Brady, Barbara Frank ...
    "This book represents the intersection of nursing and culture change. Read it. Do it with, not for, your staff."—Sarah Burger, RNC, MPH, FAAN, Gerontological Nurse Consultant"This book should be required reading for all who work in care settings, and the text used for leadership and health care administration courses in colleges." —Joanne Rader, RN, MN, PMHNP, Nurse Specialist Consultant"David ... Read more

    PHP3,034.41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coping Courageously

    A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One's Illness Without Losing Yourself

    by Delia Chiaramonte ...
    Are you stressed and exhausted because someone you love is seriously ill?Do you wish you felt less overwhelmed and more certain about how to help?Coping Courageously will be your guide. You will learn:The most important things to do, and not do, when a loved one is sickInsider strategies for getting the best medical careA simple and effective approach for managing your own stressSkills to confiden ... Read more

    PHP553.29

  • I'll Be Right There

    A Guidebook for Adults Caring for Their Aging Parents

    by Fern Pessin ...
    When we talk about our bucket list, we focus on the things we want to do before we die. What about the list of things we DON'T want to happen as we start to age? What do we call THAT list?I'll Be Right There is a guidebook for adult children caring for their aging parents-during what can be an emotionally charged and challenging time.The stories, information, worksheets, and resources in I'll Be ... Read more

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  • Waiting in the Wings

    by Stevie Turner ...
    At the grand old age of 92, my mother Dot suddenly starts telling me that she loves me. I am quite dumbstruck at these outbursts of emotion, as she has never mentioned the fact before in all of my 58 years. Over the entire course of my lifetime we have often argued bitterly, and have never really seen eye-to-eye over anything. I squirm with the inner knowledge that she wants me to reply in a ... Read more

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  • The Practical Caregiver's Essential Guide: How to Help Someone You Love

    by Sara M. Barton ...
    This guide will help you to better understand your loved one's need for care and how you can effectively provide it, while still maintaining your own good health.There are three important rules for good family care:Love is never enough. You can love someone utterly and completely, but without the right tools and education, you can fail as a caregiver.You have to take care of yourself in order to ... Read more

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  • Transition to Retirement

    A Guide to Inclusive Practice

    by Roger J. Stancliffe, Nathan J. Wilson, Nicolette Gambin, Professor Christine Bigby ...
    As much as everyone groans from time to time about the humdrum and stresses of work, retirement is an unsettling prospect for most people. It's a major transition in anyone's life and change of this magnitude often arouses anxiety. This is much more so for people with disability, particularly intellectual disability.But, as this manual shows, it doesn't have to be like that. The Transition to ... Read more

    PHP509.69

  • International Perspectives on Family Caregiving

    Informal Care for People with Vulnerabilities

    Edited by Selwyn Stanley ...
    There is an increased interest to turn the spotlight not only on the needs and experiences of service users, but also to understand the complexity of issues that their caregivers’ experience. An informal caregiver is any relative, spouse/partner, friend or neighbour who has a significant personal relationship with and provides a broad range of assistance and care for, an adult or a child with a ... Read more

    PHP5,257.99

  • The 2030 Caregiving Crisis

    A Heavy Burden for Boomer Children

    by Henry Moss ...
    The U.S. lacks a long-term care system. The closest it has is Medicaid, a safety net program for the very poor. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 90% of older persons receiving help with activities of daily living (ADLs) in 2011 relied on some "informal" care, from family members and friends. About two thirds relied on only informal care. Family and friends collectively ... Read more

    PHP116.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • de Laatste Zorg

    by Martin Kruiniger ...
    De Laatste ZorgZe is weer terug.Op de plek waar alles ooit klopte. Waar elke dag een ritme had.Waar zij degene was die overzicht hield, beslissingen nam en wist wat er moest gebeuren.Niets lijkt veranderd. En toch voelt alles anders.Kleine dingen vallen net buiten het patroon.Blikken die iets langer blijven hangen, momenten die niet helemaal aansluiten.Alsof de werkelijkheid zich heel langzaam ... Read more

    PHP622.67 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Is Not Enough

    by James Chess ...
    "I'm an addict."The first time you hear those words from your child, the world tilts. You want to argue, to fix it, to rewrite the story before it's even been told. James Chess heard them from his youngest son, Danny, and spent years believing the hardest chapter was behind them.It wasn't.In this raw, unflinching memoir, Jim Chess does what most parents dread even imagining: he tells the full ... Read more

    PHP407.46

  • Group Activities with Older Adults

    by Vicki Dent ...
    If you have responsibility for providing activities for older adults and you aren't sure whether what you are providing is effective, or you have exhausted all your own activity ideas then this book is for you. This clear and easy-to-use resource provides the tools you require to develop and implement a range of activities that meet the needs of your group. Structured around the ten areas of ... Read more

    PHP3,380.37

  • Christmas Picture Book

    Christmas Picture Books, #1

    by Julia Brooke, Rowan Travis ...
    Series Book 1 - Christmas Picture Books
    It may not happen so often but when it does, it is magical. There is just something story book like about crunchy white footprints and snow covered rooftops everywhere. Of course, snow brings its own problems too … but for a few special days during the cosy Christmas time, it's relaxing to go for a winter walk and snowball fight before coming back to settle for some warm coffee beside an open fire ... Read more

    PHP232.59

  • God Give Me Faith

    And Other Prayers You Don't Want to Pray

    by Rayel Bausenhaus ...
    “God give me faith,” is the prayer you don’t want to pray. It’s a prayer that usually means you’ll endure uncomfortable and terrifying situations that push every boundary you have. It’s a prayer I prayed as, over six months, one of my parents lost their ability to remember and the other, their ability to breathe. God Give Me Faith is about that prayer and what resulted from it.Just like that, I ... Read more

    PHP257.27

  • Hverdagen med demens. Billeddannelser og hverdagserfaringer i kulturgerontologisk perspektiv

    by Christine E. Swane ...
    Demens er ikke ensbetydende med et totalt menneskeligt forfald, og der er derfor behov for et humanistisk syn på lidelsen."Hverdagen med demens" er Christine E. Swanes ph.d.-afhandling fra 1996. Afhandlingen, som blev udarbejdet i 1992-95, gør op med tidens stereotype og negative blik på demenslidelsen. Den indeholder en række interviews med mennesker med demens, pårørende og en lang række ... Read more

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  • Art Therapy with Older Adults

    Connected and Empowered

    by Erin Partridge ...
    This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including those with dementia or other diseases of later life.Advocating for a more collaborative approach to art-making, the author presents approaches and directives designed to facilitate community engagement, stimulate intellectual and emotional exploration, ... Read more

    PHP1,826.19

  • Stories from a Doll

    by M.C.D. ...
    Kathryn, a member of the greatest generation, once an assistant buyer for a major department store, an assistant fire chiefs wife, mother to a son and a daughter, a grandmother to four boys, a life long friend to many friends who knew her as Kay or Dolly is in her late seventies when, little by little, she finds her mind changing through a series of strokes beginning Christmas, 1986. Kathryn loses ... Read more

    PHP506.69