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Tools for Professionals Who Work With Seniors
Bookshelf - Aging
Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During, and After
Tracy Cram PerkinsDementia Home Care provides practical, step-by-step guidance. It bridges the gap between professionals and families. It covers all stages of brain disease. It promotes proactive planning to help reduce the stress for families and allow for better quality of care. It encourages dignity, respect and empathy. It supports aging in place, yet offers guidance when that is not possible.
Easy-to-read, large print, Dementia Home Care is a caregiving toolbox that spans from diagnosis to beyond death. It contains an eight page table of content designed so the caregiver may run their finger down the page until they find the challenge of the moment, turn to that page, and read a short bit of explanation followed by suggestions to try. It contains over 130 resources and further reading suggestions.
Dementia, Caregiving, and Personal History: How to Help, Cope, Connect, and Heal
Tami AnastasiaDementia, Caregiving, and Personal History is a practical and compassionate guide for anticipating and addressing the emotional and behavioral challenges of dementia care. By uncovering how personal history, trauma, cultural values, and lifelong patterns shape behavior, you can provide care that supports your loved one and protects your well-being.
Through relatable stories and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn to interpret behaviors, manage emotional triggers, navigate family dynamics, and create meaningful moments of connection. You’ll come away with tools to help, cope, connect, and heal through every stage of your journey.
Senior Living: Taking Back Your Golden Years
Laura Banner & Kelly Anne RasmovichThe day finally came, retirement! In this book, we aim to help you rediscover who you are in this new phase of life and how to take advantage of your Golden Years. We’ll show you how you’re more capable of achieving your dreams now than ever before. It’s as simple as knowing what you want and shifting your mindset to allow yourself to have it!
Aging in Place Conversations: What Industry Experts Have to Say
Various AuthorsLearn from top experts who work with older adults. Whether you’re just starting your retirement journey, the child of a widow, or a seasoned lifelong learner, this book provides answers to top questions encountered when developing an Aging-in-Place plan.
Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan
Maddy DychtwaldAgeless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age—an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience. It provides a holistic, actionable plan that will help women make use of all the tools available to them as they grow older.
Keenagers: Telling a New Story about Aging
Dr. Corinne AumanAre you looking for a book that will inspire and motivate you to take on new challenges and break outdated stereotypes about aging? Keenagers: Telling a New Story about Aging by Dr. Corinne Auman is the perfect read. This book will change your life by showing you that life doesn’t have to stop when the gray hairs start to come in. It will empower you to make the most of your later years and find new adventures and opportunities, no matter your age.
What you’ll find in Keenagers:
– Learn how to embrace and make the most of your later years
– Get inspired to take on new challenges and break outdated stereotypes of aging
– Discover how to create a fulfilling life, even when faced with changing circumstances
– Explore the stories of keenagers and gain a deeper understanding of the aging process
Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years: Critical Information to Maximize Their Independence and Make Sure They Get the Care They Need
Star BradburyNo matter your parents’ age or stage of life, this comprehensive guide walks you step-by-step through developing a flexible, proactive plan that will allow you to make the best, most informed decisions—for your parents’ well-being and your own.
The AgeTech Revolution: A Book about the Intersection of Aging and Technology
Keren EtkinIn The AgeTech Revolution, Keren Etkin takes you on a journey to explore what the intersection of tech and aging looks like today. This book explores the changing face of aging in the 21st century, through the lens of the fast-paced digital transformation our society is going through. It goes into challenges of aging that are currently being tackled by technology – using the real-life stories of tech entrepreneurs and older adults. Etkin also provides a glimpse into the future, and what agetech could be like five, ten, fifteen years down the road. We have a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to impact the experience of living as an older adult in this world, using technology. The AgeTech Revolution provides us with the data and perspective necessary to change our tech landscape and to create a world that is more inclusive and supportive of older adults.
Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live
Becca Levy PhDYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.
Essential Strategies for the Dementia Caregiver: Learning to PACE Yourself
Tami AnastasiaESSENTIAL STRATEGIES FOR THE DEMENTIA CAREGIVER offers a fresh and practical approach to the challenges faced by wives, husbands, and adult children who care for loved ones with dementia. Using the 4 D’s of Dementia Care – detach, document, diffuse, distract – caregivers can find solutions for behaviors ranging from shadowing to wandering to medication refusal. The PACE model emphasizes the importance of prioritizing the caregiver’s well-being while navigating the dementia journey.
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