Showing titles in Aging Parents

2,4 Millionen pflegebedürftige Menschen leben in Deutschland. Fast 80 Prozent werden von ihren Angehörigen versorgt. Diese Belastung hat ihren Preis: Die Angehörigen leiden häufiger an Krankheiten - auch chronischen - als Menschen, die keinen Verwandten betreuen. Und ihre psychische Verfassung ist deutlich schlechter. Die Angebote zur Entlastung reichen auch nach der jüngsten Pflegereform, die pflegende Angehörige stärker unterstützen soll, nicht aus.

The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society.

A practical guide for managing care while preserving sanity. Designed for families, communities, professionals. Topics range from resources through legal considerations, in-home and outside facility caregiving, emergencies, financial, planning for terminal illness, and bereavement. Cases included. Also includes often asked questions and answers. Helps caregivers interact with medical, governmental, social service, and other professional agencies.

This vibrant, provocative collection from the publishers of the best selling, award-winning When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple is a compelling anthology of poems and short stories through which women candidly reveal their hidden feelings about their bodies. They delve into such compelling topics as budding sexuality, childbirth, physical strength and weakness, menopause, and aging.

How do we look to each other as we grow older? This uplifting collection asks men and women to answer this provocative question. The answers, in the form of evocative poetry and prose, reveal the pleasures of growing older and teach us how to remain active and proud, living out our older years to the fullest potential. You'll delight in learning how the changes that we experience in later life can provide wonderful benefits and newfound happiness.

These are the humorous musings of a guy starting to get a little older and being realistic about it, trying to have fun in life while still setting good example for his three-year old daughter, and living up to his expectations of himself and while keeping a humorous outlook at life. The hospital gown that won't close in the back? The nurse who didn't tell him everything he might need to know about laxatives? A dentist who uses his feet for leverage while doing a tooth extraction? Just another day!

Joan Boice, a retired school teacher afflicted with dementia, hoped to hang on to her dignity and safety when she checked into Emerald Hills, a facility run by America’s largest assisted living company. What she and her family got was an introduction to what many think is the country’s next great health crisis.

It's New Years Eve. Everybody's celebrating...Unless you happen to be elderly.Then, it may not be a party for you.It may be the emergency room.New Years Eve at Eighty-two.What it was like for a dear friend of ours.What it may be like for you or someone you love someday.

For 15 years, Robert Tell was his widowed Mom's caregiver as her mind and personality disappeared into the fog of dementia. He tells the tale with compassion and humor in this full length, fast moving memoir. His lesson: Caregiver burnout can be helped. Laugh and cry with him as he takes away her car keys, helps her move into tiny quarters with all her furniture, tries to undo mismanagement of her finances, and refuses to promise never to put her into a nursing home.

This upbeat guide to caregiving gives information that is useful in a clear and easy to use format. Entertaining as well as informative, and told through the authors' own experiences, this audiobook details the sometimes surprising challenges of caregiving. A positive and upbeat book that takes on the hard issues of caregiving, and delivers sound advice to a generation dealing with the 'good news/bad news' conundrum that our ever increasing lifespan present to us.

All older people want to do... is feel alive again. Sometimes, it takes an angel. Welcome to an eighteen year old one. A friend of mine.

Stories told in the dark are those nagging stories that won't go away until you bring them to the light. Waiting for Fido, the first in the series, is dark humor with a suburban beat. It is the story of a lovely couple who are ready to retire and sail away. Almost. There is still the nagging problem of what to do with the family pets....

Find the answers in this minibook, which draws from healthcare, legal, and psychological principles. It provides advice on how to approach the elder to try to work out agreements about driving, as well as a five step plan, including a last resort of using legal means to take the keys away from an elderly driver who is a threat to the safety of others as well as himself or herself.

Money can be a sticky issue for families, especially when one is faced with the idea of taking over control of an elder's checkbook. Handling money competently requires the ability to pay attention to details, keep track of expenditures, and to be aware of what one has to spend. When our aging parents begin to "slip" in these areas, adult children can become confused about who has the right to do what.

Got a family fight on your hands? Anxious and aggravated by a sibling or two who just doesn't get it when it comes to caring for your parent? If you are overwhelmed by family conflicts about aging parents or other loved ones, this little book is for you.

The stranger came over to where I stood. I wish he hadn't. He told me a story. And now I tell you....

Today's grandparents aren't content to sit in their rockers doing needlepoint or whittling wood - modern grandparents are healthy and active. Grandma may be traveling the world, writing a book, or taking dance lessons and Grandpa might be camping with the grandkids, playing a golf tournament, or skydiving! Nana may have entered the family by marrying Grampa later in life, or Pop-Pop may be a beloved family friend who's always there when someone needs him. Families are finding that the meaning of "grandparent" has changed tremendously but that grandparents continue to be treasured members of our families.

From the time she was conceived, Susan Morse was her mother’s “special” child. For Susan, special translated into becoming her incorrigible mother’s frazzled caretaker, a role that continued into adulthood. Now she finds herself as part of the sandwich generation, responsible for a woman whose 85 years have been single-mindedly devoted to identifying The Answer To Everything. And, this week’s Answer looks like it may be the real thing. Susan’s mother is becoming a nun.

At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects. Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

Retirement. You’ve worked for it, planned for it, and dreamed about it: life’s great permanent vacation. But what if retirement could be measured in more than hours on the beach, days on the golf course, and weeks of travel? What if retirement were the beginning, not the end, of your life’s greatest work? What if the rest of your life could be the best of your life? New Man Journey is for any man who longs to make retirement about more than recreation.