Stories from a Doll
ISBN: 9781436333108 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,66 zł |
Life with Clara - One Caregiver's Journey
ISBN: 9781453698211 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of one caregiver that started off with the desire to help a loved one through a very trying time. The emerging emotions, very conflicting at times, made this journey difficult at times, very rewarding and satisfying at other times.
This is the story of one caregiver that started off with the desire to help a loved one through a very trying time. The emerging emotions, very confli...
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34,10 zł |
Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Experience in Caregiving
ISBN: 9781450273527 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a transforming time for everyone involved when an aging adult begins to require more assistance and care from loved ones. Little by little, as elderly adults are asked to let go of things they have always done or cherished, caregivers attempt to fill their lives with love, warmth, and security-all while blindly navigating through an uncertain time. Martha Eischen has been there. Over the course of ten years, she was responsible for her mother's total care. In "Mothering Mother, " she shares not only her perspective, but also practical advice and valuable resources as she leads other...
It is a transforming time for everyone involved when an aging adult begins to require more assistance and care from loved ones. Little by little, as e...
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51,82 zł |
Help! What Do I Do Now?: Caring for Your Loved One with Alzheimer's
ISBN: 9780966591217 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Parenting/Family - Nonfiction category of the Global ebook Awards. You have become the caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. You may have been dreading this for some time, or you may have been surprised when this responsibility was thrust upon you. Maybe you know you are among 11 million family caregivers caring for 5 million Alzheimer's patients in the United States, but those numbers don't make you feel any less alone. Perhaps you don't know anything about the disease, but most likely, you know just enough to realize that you are facing new and difficult...
Winner of the Parenting/Family - Nonfiction category of the Global ebook Awards. You have become the caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer's diseas...
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27,28 zł |
Fading From Memory: what happens to a family when both parents have Alzheimer's?
ISBN: 9781456345983 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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... "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... |
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113,61 zł |
NORMAL Doesn't Live Here Anymore: An Inspiring Story of Hope for Caregivers
ISBN: 9781456474294 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would happen if The Unthinkable blindsided you, requiring everything be put on hold to become a full time caregiver for a loved one? At the very least, it would reshape your life. Without a survival guide, it could even destroy it. Barb Owen delivers precisely that survival guide in NORMAL Doesn't Live Here Anymore: An Inspiring Story of Hope for Caregivers. She weaves a story, through the first two parts of the book, based on her life-changing experience as primary caregiver for her elderly parents. Following each chapter a bit of wisdom gained from Barb's experience is summarized as a...
What would happen if The Unthinkable blindsided you, requiring everything be put on hold to become a full time caregiver for a loved one? At the very ...
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90,84 zł |
Momma's Praise: A Lighter Side of Elder Care
ISBN: 9781448648931 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this vast growing population where we find children are now caring for parents, Lou Carol extends deep compassion and offers much encouragment to many care givers. Role reversal of this venue was probably not anticipated and in most cases may not be embraced in this century. But for those who have embraced this fast growing population, there is an answer to your often experienced confusion, madness and sometimes depression, it's called laughter, which serves as medicine for the soul.
In this vast growing population where we find children are now caring for parents, Lou Carol extends deep compassion and offers much encouragment to m...
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49,85 zł |
I Cared For You, Mom & Dad
ISBN: 9781456535490 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is one woman's story of taking care of her parents for 4-1/2 years. The first 2-1/2 years she drove them around Canada, western United States, Arizona, Texas and back home to Iowa in a Suburban pulling a 32' trailer. The last 2 years they stayed at home because her father couldn't travel any longer. He kept having strokes and her mother had Alzheimer's Disease. This is an exciting story of adventure taking care of her parents.
This is one woman's story of taking care of her parents for 4-1/2 years. The first 2-1/2 years she drove them around Canada, western United States, Ar...
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46,67 zł |
Friends In The Garden A Family's Journey
ISBN: 9781456472979 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My mother and mother-in-law lived in the same nursing home and both suffered from Alzheimer's. This is the story of our family's journey, marked by joy and despair, laughter and tears, and love. I want to share what I learned as a daughter and caregiver with others who are facing the same, most difficult journey. If our story helps just one person, then I will have honored by mother's and mother-in-law's courage and memories.
My mother and mother-in-law lived in the same nursing home and both suffered from Alzheimer's. This is the story of our family's journey, marked by jo...
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49,85 zł |
Adventures in Careland: Façades and Back Rooms of Institutionalized Aging
ISBN: 9781453899922 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen years ago, Gilah Silber became a geriatric physician because she wanted to offer comfort and even joy to people as they made their last passage in life. Dr. Silber trained with a strong purpose to care for the aging and dying individual-in body, yes-but also in mind and spirit. To her dismay, she went on to practice medicine in a place she never expected to go, namely, a wonderland of nursing home facilities, where up was down, and down was up. As her adventures in long-term "careland" have taught her, it is the institutions that are at the center of the universe, not the people they...
Fifteen years ago, Gilah Silber became a geriatric physician because she wanted to offer comfort and even joy to people as they made their last passag...
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68,25 zł |
We Are Invisible
ISBN: 9781453770528 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed for anyone who has ever taken care of beloved parents as they age, knowing the heart-rending emotions that come from that responsibility.
This book is designed for anyone who has ever taken care of beloved parents as they age, knowing the heart-rending emotions that come from that respon...
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54,64 zł |
2001 Hearts: The Jane Gawron Story
ISBN: 9781439241288 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Family Care Giver Alliance reported that the profile of the care provider is a 46 year old married woman working outside the home making an annual salary of $35,000. This book is the story of an almost typical caregiver and medical error. It is for the millions of others who are caring for an elderly family member. This is a true story of my Mom's last year of life. I wish I had known at the beginning of 2001 what I know now.
The Family Care Giver Alliance reported that the profile of the care provider is a 46 year old married woman working outside the home making an annual...
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163,46 zł |
Lord, Help! Here Comes Mom!
ISBN: 9781440404481 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lord, Help Here Comes Mom offers a true, slice-of-life look into the lives of a single mother, two teenagers, and a college student as they embark on the journey of caring for their 85-year-old mother and grandmother after she sells the home she has lived in for 47 years and moves across the country to live near them. Readers will roar with laughter at times while being moved to tears at others as they find themselves caught up in this timeless story of family, love, commitment and renewal.
Lord, Help Here Comes Mom offers a true, slice-of-life look into the lives of a single mother, two teenagers, and a college student as they embark o...
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77,36 zł |
Like Your Own Daughters: Words Of Hope For Individuals And Families Facing Long-Term Care
ISBN: 9781439210420 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who is taking care of your mother? Who is looking after your father? For the more than 1.8 million nursing home residents in this country, it is the nursing assistant. Indeed, one in five Americans will be placed in the hands of such strangers during a lifetime. Until now little reassurance has been offered to families who are struggling with the difficult decision of turning to long-term care. Written in the caregivers' own words, "Like Your Own Daughters" candidly describes daily life in a nursing home, a world where residents and families grapple with the demands of an unfamiliar...
Who is taking care of your mother? Who is looking after your father? For the more than 1.8 million nursing home residents in this country, it is the n...
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50,04 zł |
The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents, Vol. 2,: How to Choose a Home Care Worker
ISBN: 9780578008806 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This minibook is for anyone who is considering getting help in the home for an aging parent, and for the elders themselves who plan to hire someone. There is an explanation of the legal risks of hiring, and guidance about the best way to overcome your parent's resistance.
This minibook is for anyone who is considering getting help in the home for an aging parent, and for the elders themselves who plan to hire someone. T...
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77,41 zł |
Surviving Eldercare: Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin: Book I of the MidLife Maze Series
ISBN: 9780981238104 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Surviving Eldercare: Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin" is for all women who are caregivers for an elderly parent or relative. It provides a body-mind-spirit approach to caregiving and is written in a style that will strengthen and guide the reader while on their caregiving journey. Many often ignored topics such as daughter-parent dynamics; the powerful feelings such as anger and the stress of caregiving while in menopause are covered in depth. Surviving Eldercare is also the personal story of the author Ellen Besso; a counselor and coach who is the caregiver for her mother who has...
"Surviving Eldercare: Where Their Needs End and Yours Begin" is for all women who are caregivers for an elderly parent or relative. It provides a body...
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45,31 zł |
Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities
ISBN: 9780415682688 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses limitations in the study of caregiving through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving from the perspectives of theory and conceptual frameworks, empirical research and frameworks and recommendations for improvements in public policy.
This text addresses limitations in the study of caregiving through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving fro...
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704,29 zł |
The Caregiver's Secrets
ISBN: 9780998203225 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,54 zł |
Postcards from Planet Eldercare: The Final Frontier
ISBN: 9780615839554 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take two retired Boomers. Add one elderly mother-in-law and her deranged Chihuahua, a steady diet of sleep deprivation, and a passel of monotonous routines. What do you get? Days (and sometimes nights) filled with laundry, mixed nuts, repeats of repeats, and better-laugh-or-you'll-cry moments. Late-life care can be the elephant in the room. We ignore it because ... well, what do you do with something large and foreign that you'd rather not discuss? Should you wait until it devours the houseplants and starts in on the pantry, or plan for a future that includes provisions for eldercare? Through...
Take two retired Boomers. Add one elderly mother-in-law and her deranged Chihuahua, a steady diet of sleep deprivation, and a passel of monotonous rou...
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40,94 zł |
Dances with my Father
ISBN: 9781456559359 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's sobering how the word cancer brings a fiercely busy, non-negotiable schedule to a very quick halt. We all hope and pray cancer won't come knocking at our door, but cancer doesn't discriminate and doesn't care if we're too busy to deal with it. On top of a busy life and full time work, single mum, Wendy must deal with her father's illness. She's not ready to accept her father's mortality; especially not when he's been the epitome of health and strength. Grasping for answers she journeys inward using a familiar tool, writing, which has been her constant counsel throughout her life. A...
It's sobering how the word cancer brings a fiercely busy, non-negotiable schedule to a very quick halt. We all hope and pray cancer won't come knockin...
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31,83 zł |