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Author
Publisher
Hunter House Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A month after proposing marriage, Diana Denholm's husband was diagnosed with colon cancer and later congestive heart failure. Following a heart transplant several of her husband's body systems began failing forcing Diana to become his primary caregiver for more than a decade. The Caregiving Wife's Handbook is a step-by-step communication guide to help women maintain emotional, physical and financial health in their unique role as caregivers to their...
Author
Publisher
Shaw Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Caregiving is a creative, joy-filled art--a service vital to our families and communities. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and practical helps, Andi Ashworth addresses the artistry, practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community. Here, she offers a grand invitation to serve others with the beauth, imagination, and love to which God calls us.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the twenty-first century care experience. Informed by original caregiver research and proven advocacy strategies, this book speaks to caregiving as it unfolds, in all of its confusion, chaos, and messiness. It greets caregivers where they are in their journey--not where others expect (or want) them to be.--
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ghent-Fuller offers insights into emotional reactions and practical suggestions based on deep understanding of the way people with dementia view many situations. She explains the loss of various types of memory and other thinking processes, and describes how these losses affect the day to day life of people with dementia, their understanding of the world around them and their personal situations.
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Whether you have cared for your loved one for one year or many, when it ends it will feel abrupt. The life and routine that have become yours suddenly comes to an end with a finality that is painful on many levels. You have become a different person during your caregiving experience, yet you haven't had time to realize who that person is. Your focus was on someone else and the thought of shifting that focus to yourself may be scary. However, exploring...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia is often life-altering. Your days are suddenly full of endless to-do lists and frustratingly futile attemps to communicate with your family member or friend. Not to mention suddenly neglecting yourself daily. It is far too easy to get discouraged and burned out. But your loved one is not lost. They are there. All that you need to overcome those barriers is to learn their...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"If you're facing the daunting reality that you're about to become a caregiver-- whether you planned for it or not-- Cruising through Caregiving is the down-to-earth and authoritative answer you need. Jennifer FitzPatrick has been through nearly every possible scenario on the caregiving spectrum, both professionally and personally, and she expertly shows you how to be a responsible, loving caregiver without being overcome by guilt, exhaustion, or...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers--the...
Series
Language
English
Description
"Join the Bubble Guppies for four fin-tastical fairy tale adventures! First, a witch turns Bubble Puppy into a frog, then Hansel and Gretel must get Bubble Puppy and Bubble Kitty safely home to their Furry Godmother, and Mail Carrier Molly encounters a card-stealing Queen of Hearts, plus so much more!"--
