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"In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today's kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies...
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"A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism,...
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Millions of Americans are or will be amateur caregivers for ill spouses, parents, or friends. Caregivers today, more than ever, use technology to help manage schedules, medication routines and pharmacy reminders, legal and financial affairs, as well as travel and expenses. Yet recent insurance options and health care's emerging digital world make for an overwhelming, complex process. If you are one of the 64 million current caregivers, could you access...
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"In 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. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable -- an affordable mobile home cooperative in small-town Oregon --...
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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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I was born in Chuquicamata, Chile, South America 3000 meters up the Andes in the Atacama desert, The largest open Gold and Copper mine on Earth. The town was noted for its bars and bordellos, but due to continued expansion of the mine, it is now located somewhere in mid air, in the Sky. Which in many ways sums up my life. No way back home.
I was one of the last free children, raised in the 60's Roaming from dawn to dusk, the seashores, lakes...
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With honesty and humor, “The Not So Average Family” shares the story of a the Wilsons, who faced unexpected challenges that evolved into on-going emotional turmoil. This "average" family had to stay on its toes as one set of twins was followed by another in an unplanned pregnancy. That was demanding in itself, but then came the discovery of a brain tumor in one child, then later a brain hemorrhage in another. Through the upheaval and uncertainty,...
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Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites them to offer compassionate care throughout the family’s experience with the death, including the months and years following. The chapters include...
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"This book addresses the often-overlooked connection between sensory sensitivity and the emotional and behavioral issues that can lead to a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other disorders. Parents will not only gain a better understanding of their child's emotions and behaviors, but will also learn powerful sensory regulation skills to help their child-and family as a whole-find some...
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No one expects a catastrophic medical event. What do you do when a seemingly normal day turns into one of the worst days in your life?
Andrew Smith describes what happened after his beloved wife, Janise, called him and with slurred words told him she wasn't feeling well. Within an hour she was in the intensive care unit of the hospital, with tubes everywhere, and machines beeping out her vital medical statistics. The doctors told him she had...
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"Renaciendo: Liberándote de los Vicios y Abrazando la Libertad Interior" es un libro que ofrece un enfoque compasivo y práctico para superar los vicios y encontrar la verdadera libertad interior. A través de historias conmovedoras, consejos prácticos y ejercicios de reflexión, este libro te guiará en un viaje de autoexploración y transformación.Desde la comprensión de los patrones de comportamiento hasta el desarrollo de estrategias efectivas...
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An essential survival guide for parents whose children suffer with persistent and often debilitating pain
Approximately ten million children are living with chronic pain. Most people would be surprised at such numbers, but for the parents of these children, the challenge of helping a pain-stricken child live a normal life is a frightening and frustrating reality. Chronic pain in children can manifest as abdominal, migraine, or facial pain. It also...
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In this remarkable collection, 22 writers describe suicidal despair or mania-or coming to terms with a generational legacy of mental illness. Into Sanity includes personal essays by contributors from all over the United States and a preface by Mark Vonnegut, who judged the contest at Talking Writing magazine that sparked these true stories.
The media has paid more attention to suicide risks and depression in recent years, especially after the death...
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A Thriller by T. R. Coca
It is a strange thing to think of the narrative of his life makes complete sense. He has been a strategist and planned his career and life with meticulous detail. Yet things somehow have gone wrong.
With disturbing anecdotes the arranged marriage of a romantic couple's wishes pull them in different directions. What happens when a spouse goes rogue with malice aforethought and unfairly humiliates and punishes the other...
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'The Successful Caregiver's Guide' provides valuable tips and advice to help your provide the best eldercare while respecting the demands of your time. It guides your through typical caregiver issues, explores the best choices for caring for your elderly loved ones, and helps you develop and implement plans that deliver the strongest possible care. -- Publisher's annotation.
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"Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the hormone disorder best known for causing gigantism. Scalise...
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Would a creator of humankind form us without offering a plan for our aging? Does the Scripture's ancient wisdom really speak to our getting older and how we ought to think of aging in our day? Can we see how God anticipated our needs in aging from the very first? Is there biblical insight for address today's common difficulties in aging? Could a scriptural approach to aging change the relationships we have and our experience in aging?
The Bible offers...
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One in five Canadians are now providing eldercare to a parent in need, and as baby-boomers age, this number is likely to grow. What do you do when your mother or father grows old? It's the natural course of life, but so many children of aging parents are unprepared. When a parent's health begins to fail, an adult child is left scrambling to find help, to balance their time, and to cope.
The Caregiver's Guide will provide readers with valuable tips...
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Should you give your child nutritional supplements? Are vaccinations safe? Why are more and more children becoming couch potatoes? In Healthy Child, Whole Child, doctors Stuart H. Ditchek and Russell H. Greenfield answer these questions and more, offering authoritative, cutting-edge information on all aspects of children's health and wellness. Taking the position that conventional and alternative approaches to pediatric care are not mutually exclusive,...
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Many of us are unprepared and confused about how to proceed when our parent begins to suffer the effects of old age. If your parent has been diagnosed with a cognitive illness, 'Supporting Parents with Alzheimer's' will arm you with the knowledge to meet your parent's psychological and physical needs so that he or she can continue to live comfortably and safely, without feeling like a burden.
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