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In Sundown Syndrome: The Ultimate Guide to What It Is, Treatment, and Prevention, you'll learn all the fundamentals of sundown syndrome. This book covers a variety of topics regarding different stages of Alzheimer's, how sundown syndrome develops, prevention techniques for sundown syndrome, and treatment methods. Caring for someone with sundown syndrome can be difficult, which is why it's important to understand the ins and outs of the condition.

There's no mistake why Florida is such a highly desired retirement location. From its favorable tax structure to its sunny-year-round weather, Florida is a perfect place to consider retiring. Listen on to learn about 15 of the best destinations to retire in Florida. We'll review why each spot is a great place to retire, the local community, and general demographics of each region.

Here is everything you need in one place regarding elder care. This resource provides caregiving advice, tools, and more. It covers all stages of senior care for elderly aging parents or spouses.

This is a no-nonsense guide that will give you everything you need to know about how to pay for long-term care for yourself, Mom, or Dad without going broke. Naked in the Nursing Home adroitly weaves together both humor and hard-hitting facts to equip you and your elderly parents for the future.

In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms listeners with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.

George S. K. Rider's The Rogue's Road to Retirement takes a unique approach to growing old don't do it! After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time, he gets in touch with his creative side an unusual direction indeed, since he spent 70 years of his life as a college athlete turned Navy officer turned Wall Street trader and weekend jock.

In this audiobook, author Joseph Spada, LPN, offers you insider's guidance into long-term care, clearly explaining what your options are, and the pros and cons of each. He shows you how to find and select the best facility for your needs, and most importantly, what to watch out for.

All things happen for a reason. Though we rarely know that reason. For me, writing, narrating and producing this audiobook have taught me important lessons. Many of them about myself. And my family. Mostly, its a way to remember my mother. Mary Resnick.

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.

Concerns of Women Over 50 by Jean Shaw looks at the anxieties affecting most women in midlife. Based on conversations with old school friends, Jean reflects on issues she and her peers are currently facing, such as problems with diet, exercise, finance, health, relationships, sleep, and weight gain.

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.

These poignant writings about the defining moments in many women's lives represent a variety of different cultural, ethnic, religious, and social backgrounds. Each woman reflects on the difficult choices she's had to make, and whether she'd do things differently if given the chance. The evocative, universal stories of challenges and conflicts touch on issues we can all relate to, including marriage, children, relationships, aging, and career choices.

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.

Everybody wants a long, full life of vitality. But beyond the basics of good diet and exercise, what can you do to achieve it? For more then 2,000 years, Chinese energy medicine has refined the use of meditation to build the body's qi, or life force. Now, a celebrated doctor of Chinese medicine and authority in the field of Taoist longevity medicine presents an indispensable resource for living a long and richer life: Meditations to Live to be 100.

The Inspired Caregiver is "a must" for you if: You have suddenly become a caregiver. caregiving isn't for the weak! To stay healthy, every day matters! We need to claim our nutrients, claim our rest, claim our "me" time! The Inspired Caregiver tells you how to: Balance life and caregiving responsibilities and care for yourself while caring for others. If you are a caregiver, this is an audiobook that you don't want to miss and keep with you throughout your caregiving journey for inspiration and strength.