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"One of the biggest concerns among aging men and women is the fear of falling. Chair yoga, or "yoga while seated," allows anyone to experience all of the benefits of an exercise program without being afraid. In Chair Yoga for Seniors, registered yoga practitioner and instructor Lynn Lehmkuhl offers readers easy-to-follow yoga positions and stretches that can be done at home, while sitting down. Chair Yoga for Seniors outlines the physical and mental...
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"By defining Alzheimer's Disease as a spectrum disorder---like autism, it affects different people differently---Dr. Gayatri Devi offers new hope for its millions of sufferers. A neurologist who's been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Devi shares the stories of her patients in the kind of narrative medical writing that grips the reader, humanizes the science, and offers equal parts practical wisdom and advice. She...
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"America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family's china, and even the kids' height charts aren't just stuff; they're attached to a lifetime of memories--and letting them go can be scary. With empathy, expertise, and humor, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff helps you sift through years of clutter, let go of what no longer...
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"Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed blending your households, or you're cleaning out your parents' property after they've moved into assisted living or passed away. Decluttering guru Peter Walsh...
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Approximately six million people have some form of dementia in North America, and they each have an average of five care partners. This number is growing each year and will continue to grow until a cure is found. There are books that are very clinical and books that are fictional, but Dementia in the Family provides clinical information in lay terms within a true story of how dementia affects not just the person with the disease, but everyone around...
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"As self-absorbed parents grow older and become more dependent on their adult children, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of the best-selling Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. Readers will learn practical yet powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that these parents can incite,...
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"For as long as Elizabeth can remember, she has watched her father trail after her mother, kissing her multiple times a day and holding her hand. She watched her mother smooth the lines in her father's face and pay attention to his every move, even when she was desperate for some time to herself. When her parents began to age, Elizabeth and her siblings are placed in the difficult position of taking over more and more supportive roles and tasks. They...
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"Finding the connection with a loved one afflicted with dementia is a challenge millions of people face: One in ten Americans has a family member with Alzheimer's, and one in three knows someone with the disease. This book offers care partners practical, hands-on ideas for meaningful, creative activities they can do with their patients, family members, or friends who have dementia. It also includes creative tips for busy care partners, offering quick...
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At Wit's End: Plain Talk on Alzheimer's for Families and Clinicians, now in its Second Edition, is a straightforward summary of leading advice for understanding and caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease, written without technical jargon and impractical nuance. About one-third of our population will eventually provide care for someone with Alzheimer's. The strain of caring for a loved one with this disease can be enormous, yet the reward of enhancing...
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A helpful book for anyone involved in caregiving for the elderly or disabled. Long term care is an approaching tsunami which the country and most families/individuals can't afford. Disruption in the approaches and methodology of long term care will occur. Understanding these changes and adapting to the new procedures will make the care of a loved one manageable and easier. Cutting edge ideas about long term care - discusses pros and cons of long term...
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When Darkness Reigns: A Caregiver's Guide from Fear to Faith will take the reader on a journey of faith and reveal how one person's trials and adversities can be examined and utilized as an example to discover how strength, peace, and comfort can be obtained when the Lord is allowed to lead the way.
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Commonly known as Caregiving, millions of people provide care for friends or family members who live with health conditions. This increasingly important role has become a reality for more people than ever before. Especially, for Adult Children of sick or disabled elderly parents!
Caregiving for a senior parent can be stressful and fulfilling at the same time. It's something that should be taken seriously, provided with love, given with dignity, and...
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When an aging family member needs some extra help and care, whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this is the book to get. It delivers bottom-line, no-nonsense, practical information for every stage of need, from the earliest signs of illness, through the nursing home, and beyond.
Written by two distinguished psychologists with specialties in eldercare counseling and research, this frank, friendly, time-tested guide is meticulously organized...
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Careless Caregivers is not a planner or guide to eldercare nor is it a diary or journal relating an eldercare odyssey. Rather, it is a short collection of true stories about one family's eldercare experience with hired in-home caregivers. Told in a blunt and humorous fashion, the book has a simple objective-to rally aging parents and their children to mentally and financially prepare for an unavoidable future. Readers will find stories that are simultaneously...
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In hindsight, taking care of the elderly is one of the most complex matters in life. Not a lot of people look forward to this task, let alone prepare for it.
Throughout the years, the world has welcomed a good mix of innovations and distractions. True enough, this take-the-good-with-the-bad concept, will forever be debated, as everyone seems to struggle finding the fine line-a balance, so to speak-amidst the constant bombardment of groundbreaking...
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Susan Rava's story begins with the first suspicion that her father-in-law, Paul, was lapsing into dementia after he set out to swim solo across Lake Michigan. Subsequently, Paul's wife, Silvia, and Susan Rava's parents, George and Dorothy, succumb to Alzheimer's disease. This beautifully written memoir culminates with Dorothy's death, 14 years after Paul's fateful swim. Rava speaks honestly about the emotional and spiritual challenges she, her husband,...
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On February 24, 2016, the author's life came to a screeching halt as her husband, Jerry, suffered a rare and serious bilateral thalamic stroke and probably was not going to live long enough to leave the hospital. At the same time, God told her to "Be still, stop striving, and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) For the first time in her life, she was forced to stop everything she was doing and focus on her God and the strength she now desperately needed...
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The author, Cynthia Neher Martindale, is a veteran of all things senior-related. In Graceful Last Chapters: Helping Seniors Who Need More Care, she shares her twenty years of experience with senior care in a voice filled with compassion, understanding, and an insider's point of view. As the primary caregiver for her parents in their declining years, as a sales and marketing director for senior living communities, and as a lawyer, Ms. Martindale brings...
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In the early 1990s I was in college, and my good friend moved into my apartment. We'll call him Stu. We shared a small bedroom with two twin beds. His goal was to make the football team, and mine was to make the baseball team.
One day Stu was looking at the bulletin board on the wall above my small desk, which was crammed into a corner, and he asked me, "What's with all the three-by-five cards?" I told him they contained my goals for both the present...
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