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Tools for Professionals Who Work With Seniors
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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.
Looking Through the Window at Dementia: The Caregiver's Handbook to Understanding Dementia
Laura Banner“Looking Through the Window of Dementia” is the caregiver’s guide to addressing and dealing with the medical, emotional, and day to day needs of someone with dementia. From medication and mobility issues to the legalities and logistics of living arrangements, “Looking Through the Window of Dementia” covers it all.
The Invisible Patient: The Emotional, Financial, and Physical Toll on Family Caregivers: How to Plan Ahead and Save Time, Money, and Stress
Annalee KrugerIn The Invisible Patient, senior care advisor and caregiver advocate Annalee Kruger teaches caretakers how to appreciate the blessings of being a caregiver while also looking after themselves. It is not a luxury for caregivers to practice strong self-care — it is a necessity. Caregiving can be a positive experience IF families better understand aging, understand the disease their loved one has, learn how to improve family communication, and have an Aging Plan. The Invisible Patient provides inspiration, encouragement, and step-by-step guidance to ease the caregiving journey.
The Perfect Caregiver: 5 steps to hiring a caregiver for your aging loved one
Christine RandallAs the U.S. population ages, we are seeing more seniors looking to stay in their own homes throughout their twilight years. Caring for aging parents can prove to be geographically and logistically challenging for many adult children. As a result, the demand for quality, in-home caregivers is on the rise. But finding the right candidate is not easy. As a consultant and independent eldercare coach, Christine Randall saw firsthand the challenges families faced when looking for a trustworthy caregiver. Utilizing her professional knowledge and expertise, Christine created a reliable method for identifying exceptional caregivers. Her 5-step guide offers valuable information on the ideal characteristics of a professional caregiver, the red flags to watch for, and tips on how to retain your caregiver. Practical and insightful, The Perfect Caregiver makes the search for a quality caregiver for your aging loved one a stress-free and successful experience.
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.
Wisdom from Those in Care
Connie GoldmanWith frank detail and profound understanding, Wisdom from Those in Care illuminates the trials, frustrations, hopes, and fears of those in care as they learn to accept help and adjust to the changes and challenges in their lives. Anyone who has received or given care will appreciate these moving accounts of nurtured spirits and transformed lives.
The Gifts of Care Giving
Connie GoldmanCaregiving can be a gift in disguise, an experience that moves you toward a more meaningful connection with yourself and with others and a chance to nurture your spirit and perhaps even to transform your life.
With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as We Grow Older
Beth BakerIn this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors.
When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents
Jim ComerAfter his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Jim Comer found himself an overnight “parent” at the age of 51. When he walked into his father’s hospital room everyone looked to him as the “man who knew all the answers.” He soon realized he didn’t even know the questions. In ten years of caregiving, Comer has not only learned the questions he has lived them, and with When Roles Reverse he shares his hard-won answers.
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