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Alzheimer's Activities: Hundreds of Activities Fitzray, B.J. 362.1968/FIT
for Men and Women With Alzheimer's Disease
and Related Disorders
This easy-to-use book is packed
with creative ideas for everyday
and special-occassion activities,
caregivers'anecdotes, helpful tips,
interesting facts, and encouragement.
The Alzheimer's Caregiver: Dealing With the Hodgson, Harriet 362.1968/HOD
Realities of Dementia
Author Harriet Hodgson, having
experienced firsthand what care-
givers go through, summarizes
the latest caregiving research,
weaving her own mother's story
into the facts to make the
advice come alive. Her
personal approach is re-
assuring and encouraging,
and her emphasis on caring
for yourself as will as the
patient can make each day a
little easier.
The Alzheimer's Source Book for Caregivers Gray-Davidson, Frena
A fact-based, hands-on, caregiving
guide written by an in-home Alzheimer's
caregiver. This unique book helps
you work through the personal issues
surrounding caregiving, including
how to recognize and manage stress,
how to deal with difficult behaviors,
how to find outside help when
necessary and how to nurture your
own well-being.
The Caregiver: A Life with Alzheimer's Alterra, Aaron 362.1/ALT
A lucid and informative memoir, this
book is the story of a man's efforts
to understand his wife's experience
with Alzheimer's disease and to
maintain his personal connection
to her. Reeve Lindbergh writes of
this book: "It is both extremely inform-
ative and deeply humane, and beyond
that it is wonderfully written."
Close to Me, But Far Away: Living With Alzheimer's Wheeler, Burton 362.1968/WHE
Offers one husband's story of living with
Alzheimer's from his wife's first experiences
with dementia through his role as her full-
time caretaker.
Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease
specialists around the world, a compassionate
guide to Alzheimer's disease, a devastating
condition that affects people over the age of
sixty-five, provides a wealth of information
on signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment,
and long-term care.
Cancer
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Caregiving: A Step-By-Step Resource for Caring Houts, Peter and 649.8/CAR
for the Person with Cancer at Home Bucker, Julia
This practical guide offers managable
solutions to the many conditions and
situations caregivers face, from
physical and emotional conditions,
dealing with health care providers
and insurance carriers, to taking
care of their own needs as well as
those of the patient.
Eldercare
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And Thou Shalt Honor
The companion volume to the PBS
special by the same name provides
a comprehensive and compassionate
guide to caregiving, covering
such issues as assessing a loved
one's health, benefits assistance,
legal advice, dealing with burnout,
hands-on care tips, and helpful
resources.
Complete Eldercare Planner Loverde, Joy 362.6/LOV
A comprehensive guide to caring
for the elderly serves as a
record book for keeping track
of medical, legal and financial
data and offers advice on
assessing the health of an elder,
broaching difficult topics, and
more.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents Rhodes, Linda M.Colvin 362.6/RHO
Offers advice on medical conditions,
medical insurance and prescription
drug costs, nursing homes and
assisted living facilities, and
resources available for assistance.
Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services Lieberman, Trudy 362.1609/CON
for Seniors
A consumer's guide to the complexities
of the health-care system for older
Americans offers an objective,
practical evaluation of a variety
of health care, assisted living,
and nursing home options in a
helpful handbook that includes
worksheets, charts, and comparison
tables.
Eldercare 911: The Caregiver's Complete Handbook Beerman, Susan
for Making Decisions
Elder Rage or, Take My Father, Please. How to Marcell, Jacqueline 362.6/MAR
Survive Caring for Aging Parents
The author chronicles her experiences
caring for her frail mother and
difficult father and offers advice
for caregivers on how to handle
elderly parents who refuse to
cooperate or demonstrate
aggressive behavior.
How to Care for Aging Parents Morris, Virginia and 306.874/MOR
A compassionate, single-volume Butler, Robert
reference to the many topics
associated with caring for aging
parents covers such areas as
nursing homes, finances, finding
a good doctor, legal arrangements,
redefining parental relationships,
and handling emotional issues.
Taking Care of Aging Family Members Lustbader, Wendy and 679.8/LUS
Offers advice on handling the Hooyman, Nancy R.
physical, mental,emotional,and
financial needs of the aged and
includes sections on spirituality,
ethnicity, self-neglect, and other
issues.
The Unofficial Guide to Eldercare Adamec, Christine A.
A practical, cost-conscious guide
offers children of elderly parents
informed advice about providing
for their parents' needs, including
information about care-giving,
living wills, nursing homes,
financing eldercare, meeting the
everyday needs of elders, coping
with illnesses, handling services
not covered by Medicare and keeping
their own lives in balance in
difficult situations.
Caregiving
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1001 Tips for Caregivers. Experienced Caregivers Carr, Sash and
Share Their Time Tested Ideas and Advice Choron, Sandra
American Medical Association Guide to Home Perry, Angela 362.14/AME
Caregiving
A difinitive guide to taking care of your
loved one at home. Written by experts
from the AMA, the book provides the
information you need to take the best
possible care of an elderly, ill or
disabled person in a home setting.
Caregiving: A Guide for Those Who Give Care and Bumagin, Victoria 362.0245/BUM
Those Who Receive It
Chock-full of descriptive case examples,
this book emphasises the ways in which
caregiving is affected by the conditions,
personalities, capabilities, and wishes
of both the caregivers and the care
receipients. Chapters explore the range
of care receivers and the difference in
caregiving styles and options.
The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-By-Step Meyer, Maria
Guide
The Educated Caregiver Three Tape Set
The Fearless Caregiver: How to Get the Best Care Barg, Gary 362.1/FEA
for Your Loved One and Still Have a Life of
Your Own
A step-by-step guide to becoming the ultimate
caregiver-skillful, knowledgeable, and
fearless-for your loved one. In this book are
also tools and strategies for taking care of
your own physical and emotional needs while
you care for someone you love.
From the Heart Through the Hands: The Power of Nelson, Dawn 615.822/NEL
Touch in Caregiving
Integrating personal experience and skillful
instruction, the author teaches how touch,
the most basic form of human
communication, can facilitate physical,
emotional and spiritual healing for the
caregiver as well as for the patient.
The Gifts of Caregiving: Stories of Hardship, Goldman, Connie 649.8092/GIF
Hope and Healing
More than thirty caregivers in very diverse
circumstances describe how they achieved
the balance that allows long-term
caregiving to be possible. Contains
extraordinary conversations with family
caregivers including Dana Reeve, wife of
actor Christopher Reeve, former First
Lady Rosalynn Carter, and Pultizer
Prize-winning author Studs Terkel.
God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart. 12 Ways Thompson, Gretchen 248.88/THO
to Keep it All Together
In a format designed for quick
reading in stolen moments, the
author offers practical "how
to" information and also offers
consolation and encourage-
ment to those who find
themselves caring for others
in need.
Hard Questions-Simple Answers. A Workbook to Peters, Elana
Take the Crisis Out of Caregiving
Keeping Them Healthy, Keeping Them Home: How Caruso, Ellen 362.14/CAR
to Care for Your Loved Ones at Home
This book offers the practical knowledge
you need to sucessfully face the
challenges and rewards of caring for
those you love. It demystifies the
paperwork involved in securing adequate
services such as physical and home
intrevenous therapies. It also covers
what can-and cannot-be expected of visiting
health professionals.
Quick Tips for Caregivers Karpinski, Marion 649.8/KAR
An information-packed book in a user-
friendly format that contains practical,
easy-to-follow descriptions and clear
instructions on basic nursing
prosedures such as how to position someone
in bed, how to help someone in and out of a
wheelchair without hurting yourself, how
to give a bed bath, protecting your back,
infection control and more.
The Resourceful Caregiver: Helping Family National Family Caregivers 362.14/RES
Caregivers Help Themselves Association
Created by family caregivers for family
caregivers, this book contains over 500
resources to help caregivers help
themselves and their loved ones.
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