Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Eldercare

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The Inspired Caregiver is "a must" for you if:

What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new vibrance and urgency. Some chapters shine their light on women therapy clients - on their precarious sociocultural predicament in a sexist/ageist time and place, on intrapsychic changes that follow from changing bodies, relationships, involvements and emergent needs of the self. Other chapters...

--When I tell my secret, one of the first questions I am asked is why didn't I tell someone.

--My friends seldom want to discuss the molestation.

--I'm never asked what is being done to stop the predator.

Dying the Right Way is written for seniors, families, and caregivers. Dying the Right Way prepares seniors and families for the time when caregiving is needed, and offers a system for caregiving in the home for either family caregivers or for monitoring professional caregivers. Dying the Right Way extends the caregiving experience to assist seniors in planning for the time when they might need care: through the document preparation phase, the search for a residential facility, life support, the dying experience, funeral planning, and settling of the estate.

"If you're caring for a parent who has cognitive problems, you'll find comfort, sympathy and humor in Fading From Memory" - Mona Johnson, author of 'The Tangled Neuron' blog.

'Fading From Memory' is a son's personal journal covering the period 2006-2009, during which his parents are first diagnosed with, and eventually succumb to, Alzheimer's disease. The journal follows the family's responses to the progressively more desperate needs of their parents with humour, insight, compassion, exasperation, enterprise and, finally, resignation. This book paints a raw, honest, but at times also...