Elder Care

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

Senior care demand is exploding, and you have the compassion and drive to launch a successful home care agency. But turning your passion into profit feels overwhelming. Licensing, staffing, and marketing on a tiny budget can cause you to feel stuck in a hurry.

Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or dementia is hard. It's hard whether you're caring for your spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, other family member, or friend. And caring for a loved one with dementia can sometimes feel like a long, lonely journey. Six Steps to Managing Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia can help.

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.

Talking about death won't kill you. Yet in today's world, death remains one of our greatest taboos. As religion declines and rituals fade, we are left without much guidance for one of life's only certainties. This is your handbook for death in the 21st century – a compassionate, practical and surprisingly hopeful guide to understanding mortality.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re caring for a parent with dementia, you know how quickly life can shift. One moment you’re having breakfast together, and the next, you’re explaining the same thing for the fifth time, while trying not to break down. Caring for someone with dementia is not just a task. It’s a deeply emotional, often exhausting role filled with love, confusion, grief, and unspoken guilt. Yet, you show up… again and again. Why? Because you love them. But who’s showing up for you?

Joan Rivers was known all over the world—from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would...

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend—who may have some secrets of her own. A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor...

From the 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...

An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities. As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut...

“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...

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.

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?

Are you stressed and exhausted because someone you love is seriously ill? Do you wish you felt less overwhelmed and more certain about how to help? Coping Courageously will be your guide. You will be touched and inspired by the stories of Dr. Chiaramonte’s patients. More importantly, Coping Courageously will give you the peace of mind, confidence, and tools to effectively support your loved one without depleting yourself.

Plan ahead, reduce stress, and create a legacy of peace. Are you prepared for the inevitable? End-of-Life Family Planner Workbook: Peace of Mind for All is a comprehensive and compassionate guide designed to help individuals and families navigate the complexities of end-of-life planning with confidence, clarity, and dignity.

An emotionally charged debut novel of a family on the brink--an autistic child, his determined mother, and her distant father--who learn that when your world changes, you find out who you really are. . . . While she was growing up, Piper's father, Lance "the Silver Eagle" Whitman, became a...