Elder Care

The Colors of Autumn uses the metaphor of seasonal change to guide families through the journey of caring for aging loved ones. Drawing from professional expertise in senior living management and personal experience as a daughter and caregiver, this audiobook provides both practical guidance and emotional support for one of life's most challenging transitions. Each chapter builds upon previous insights, creating a comprehensive framework for navigating eldercare with wisdom, compassion, and hope.

A practical guide to embracing personal growth, overcoming self-limiting beliefs, and nurturing wellbeing through the transformative power of self-love. The goal is to empower listeners to cultivate self-love, embrace change, and integrate healthy caregiving traits into their lives, ultimately leading to resilience and a profound sense of well-being. Self-love as a caregiver is not only essential but also life-changing.

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers is a life-affirming, instructive, and inspiring book about living gracefully and purposefully with the challengesfaced by those with chronic pain or illness. These conditions, while not always life-threatening, are life-disrupting and stressful. The audiobook contains over two dozen tools and practices to help people live skillfully and to find equanimity and joy despite the profound changes in their lives.

Ever feel overwhelmed decoding the behavioral changes and mood swings of your loved one? Are financial strains and fears about the future keeping you up at night? Wondering how to balance caregiving with work and family without losing yourself? Discover practical strategies for every stage of the journey

The Caregiver’s Advocate is authentic healing—real stories and insightful tools that get straight to the business of supporting the people taking care of those in need. From practical tools like music, eldercare planning, and legal knowledge to bathing and navigating vacations and sensory changes, this book will give you the hope, inspiration, and strategies to care and also keep yourself energized, happy, and sane.

Eveline Helmink's life changed forever when her mother showed signs of dementia. With her father living in denial and her mother slowly becoming unable to recognize her, Eveline was left emotionally stranded with no help on the way. Over 16 million people in the US, like Eveline, are not receiving the support they need as someone they're close to battles dementia—but this book can provide a much-needed source of emotional sustenance.

Caregiving for those who suffer from Parkinson's disease comes with many challenges, from how to deal with guilt and loneliness to avoiding burnout and figuring out what to expect from an unpredictable disease. When giving care, too often caregivers neglect their own well-being. Everything You Need to Know About Caregiving for Parkinson's Disease is not just about caring for your loved one, but also about taking care of yourself.

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must.

Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however - and that is where A Loving Approach to Dementia Care can help. The book offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming caregiving obstacles and maintaining meaningful relationships with loved ones who have dementia and memory loss.

The first 10 years of a child's life are the most impressionable. This is when their foundations are formed and so it is the best time to encourage positive traits, so they are equipped with the tools to live healthy and balanced lives through which they worship and serve Allah. Each storybook has been designed to focus on a main principle, followed by related Qur'an/Hadith quotes. The moral of the story section highlights the core lessons from the storybook.

From Burnout to Bliss: Discover a powerful solution that brings joy back to caregiving. It starts with the little things, doesn't it? Mom forgetting to turn off the stove, or Dad insisting on a winter sweater in July. Suddenly, a slip in the bathroom leads to a heart-pounding, E.R.-bound adventure. Your once-stable life becomes a tornado of caregiving responsibilities.

From an acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color—from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens—who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and...

Aging in America is a "hands on" consumer guide to help you detect, prevent, and protect against elder abuse. Elder abuse is the new silent killer and a national crisis. Don't you want to know the best way to protect yourself now at a very low cost? It's an easy and informative listen. Are you a baby boomer worried about growing older? Maybe assisted living, at home care or a nursing home? Alone, broke, medical care, and palliative care denied, or your end of your life wishes ignored?

Our short, fact-packed book will tell you the truth about things no one else wants to talk about, especially money. You are busy and don’t have time to read a dictionary sized book loaded with “doctor talk.” Our manual will save you time and money and make your choices clear and easier. HELP! has proven solutions and real-life experiences which you can easily relate to and follow. We will fearlessly and accurately get to the point of what you need to know.

For the millions thrust into the unexpected role of dementia caregiver, this comprehensive guide offers essential support and practical solutions. Whether caring for aging parents, a spouse, or another loved one, you'll find the tools needed to navigate this challenging journey.

“These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer’s. Sandeep Jauhar’s prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone A deeply affecting memoir of a...

Research on this syndrome continues to evolve, but in the meantime patients and their medical providers are left feeling lost and hopeless. In this new and exciting audiobook, dual-boarded neuropsychiatrist J.D. Claunch, MD dives into the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of long COVID. More than just the science of this illness, Dr. Claunch paints a picture of the suffering and medical trauma experienced by patients with long COVID and older versions of this post-infectious chronic illness, like chronic Lyme and myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Operating an ALF can be rewarding. The services you provide for people aged 62+ and their families help people live their best lives. You also contribute to the community and society at large by maintaining the health and well-being of a contributing member.

Caring for our aging parents—whether we take them into our homes or support them from a distance—is a beautiful opportunity for us to honor them. It can also be an intensely demanding process in which we discover things about them, about ourselves, and about the difficulties of old age that stretch and challenge us.

Struggling with the demands of caring for a loved one with dementia? Overwhelmed by the challenges and unsure where to turn? This 2-in-1 audiobook bundle is your ultimate guide. Get the best value with this comprehensive resource, designed to support you every step of the way.