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You are not alone! Over 15.7 million people today are caring for a loved one with dementia. As caregivers, it’s easy for us to feel isolated. If you’re weary of the heartache and losses you both suffer, of the restless nights and chaotic days, then you know that our frustrations, helplessness, and fear can drive us to our knees. Dementia is cruel. But the caregiving journey that we are on also offers unexpected, uplifting gifts: profound personal insight; explosive spiritual growth; and discovery of our deepest self....

This short allegory provides comfort, insight, and validation for caregivers and relatives of loved ones with Alzheimer's. A Bird Named Payn illustrates how to process the complex emotions that arise when you walk through this painful journey. The insidious disease forces friends and family members to grieve the loss of someone who is still alive.

Individuals with dementia demonstrate presence every day, and they ask us to enter their world; they ask us to connect with them. Through my personal journey, I have learned that true connection is about giving our complete attention to the person sitting next to us. It's about being present - with our spouse or partner, children, friends, coworkers, and even our pets. It takes commitment and it is hard work, but ultimately it provides life's greatest reward: a sense of love and belonging.

In this audiobook, you will be introduced to a variety of perspectives on these and other issues with the intent that by having listened to it, you will live a more examined life. If you are satisfied with your current life path, you will get some cool suggestions for more fun. If, on the other hand, you realize that the story of your life could use some editing, consider the important aspects you need to address.

What would you do if both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s? In Alzheimer’s Daughter listeners journey with Rosie Church from her first suspicions that something is awry to nearly a decade later as she is honored to hold Ed and Ibby’s hands when they draw their final breaths.

A simple self-help guide to negotiating the complicated maze of retirement issues and continuing care retirement communities. Filled with facts and stats along with simple analysis tools and checklists to effectively evaluate a continuing care retirement community to avoid costly mistakes.

In Honoring the Elderly, author and Presbyterian minister Brian L. De Jong combines biblical insights with practical advice for eldercare. His work shows you both the importance and the realities of caring for your aging parents or other loved ones. With insightful questions at the end of each section, Honoring the Elderly is a valuable resource for couples, families, and classes discussing eldercare.

Contemporary culture is permeated with the caustic message that nothing is more important than youth and that the natural aging process is to be dreaded, denied, postponed, avoided at all costs. The media crams our minds full of dreadful data of aging as a dire collection of disease, devastation, and loss. Cultural perspectives foster a fear of aging that dramatically affects our experience of growing older.

Jo’s mother, Babe, liked to drink, dance, and stay up very late. When the husband she adored went on sales calls, she waited for him in the parking lot, embroidering pillowcases. Jo grew up thinking that the last thing she wanted was to be like her mother. Then it dawned on her that her own happiness was derived in large part from lessons Babe had taught her.

Are you the only male in an all-female household? Do you know all the lyrics to all the songs in Frozen? Have you mastered the art of the tea party? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. 50 Things to Know About Raising Happy, Confident Daughters by Glen MacDonell and Craig Smith from the podcast Dads Outnumbered offers an approach to parenting through their unique perspective of being the only male in their all-female households.

Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace - and, ultimately, inspiration.

What do you say to someone who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease? How can you help someone who knows they are dying or people who have just said good-bye for the last time to someone they love? You want to help, but how can you be sure you aren't doing more harm than good? What should you say about God, heaven, or prayer? Author Patrick Shawn Riecke answers these questions after 20 years of helping the sick, dying, and grieving. You will encounter the best ways to talk with people in what he calls Phase Three - life's most difficult moments.

Carolyn L. Rosenblatt is a registered nurse and an attorney with over 40 years of combined experience. She has compiled her nine-volume series into this complete guide. It touches on dangerous older drivers, choosing home care workers and nursing homes, understanding assisted living, the specifics of handling money for aging parents, ways to manage sibling conflicts about elders, advice from a lawyer about how to choose a lawyer when your parent needs one, and knowing how a care manager can help you.

Give Me My Flowers Now is story told from the eyes and heart of a daughter who is the caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer's Disease and dementia. The author is reflective on the woman her mother was and who she is as a result of the disease. Cole-Trice believes that anyone who is going through taking care of elderly parents or just having to give most of themselves to care for a love one could read and realize they are not alone.

For nearly a decade, Jackie watched over her father's care. She quickly found her world filled with adult diapers, a pharmacy of pills, and days heavily laced in utter boredom. As the days melted together, Jackie came to understand what her father was teaching her - how to live in constant gratitude and with a heart full of love.

Use this powerful guidebook to eliminate the stress and anxiety of retirement planning! Everybody grows old, which means individuals who work hard and sacrifice much each and every day also eventually get grey hair and wrinkles by the time they retire. It's not about the physical effects of growing up, though. It's about the development of your life's value and the assurance that you'll reap the fruits of your labor when you retire.

Filled with clear and practical solutions, this step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple home modifications helps seniors make their homes safer and easier to navigate. Age in Place is designed to help seniors and their caregivers address these new challenges together and make life at home safer, more manageable, and less stressful for all.

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point - in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house - Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors, to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life.

This audiobook provides information about living arrangements, services, and facilities available for older adults with changing health needs, as well as checklists to help you determine the living situation most appropriate for your loved one.

Everyone wants to feel fitter, sexier, more energetic, more productive, and younger - but what if the solutions were already here? What if there were already ways to ease the negative effects of aging and prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease from ever starting? What if we could translate all the exotic science and research breakthroughs of today into a practical plan that could help us win the war on aging? Here’s the truth: We can. The Fountain is a sensible, comprehensive, and scientifically based anti-aging guide packed with essential information.